Interesting, but the article begs the question without answering it: if employer-side payroll taxes should count as part of the employee's tax rate (and I agree

Interesting, but the article begs the question without answering it: if employer-side payroll taxes should count as part of the employee's tax rate (and I agree that it should), what is America's real rate? Also, unrelated, how do our utility and estate taxes compare? Sales and VAT? Regulatory costs passed along into the final price of consumer goods? Capital gains paid on retirement savings? There are a lot of variables, and if we're going to acknowledge complexity in making comparisons, we should try to really ferret out all of them.