If you pay 40% taxes then you are 40% socialist. In Belgium we pay: - 50% income taxes - 21% VAT (a kind of sales tax) - 14% Social security 50+21+14 = %85 So

If you pay 40% taxes then you are 40% socialist. In Belgium we pay: - 50% income taxes - 21% VAT (a kind of sales tax) - 14% Social security 50+21+14 = %85 Socialist. Any taxes you pay above 50% brings you into the communist area [myself et al] so we are 35% communist. (this was just for laughs)