Germany is also disproportionately generous with tax deductions and benefits for getting married and having children (not to mention childcare is free from 1 ye

Germany is also disproportionately generous with tax deductions and benefits for getting married and having children (not to mention childcare is free from 1 year of age in Berlin). It isn’t easy to compare apples to apples but generally I’d guess in Europe highly paid professions are subsidizing the poor relative to the US.