Americans do pay a lot of taxes...comparable with a lot of European countries (outside of France and Scandinavia). You can't just compare a top marginal tax rat

Americans do pay a lot of taxes...comparable with a lot of European countries (outside of France and Scandinavia). You can't just compare a top marginal tax rate and conclude that one country taxes more than the other...it is the combination of all taxes that determines government revenues. Our taxes are poorly structured, and the spending of the revenue is poorly prioritized and poorly accounted for. That is the real problem.