"I am aware I have started a thread that is drifting way off topic and can potentially get very personal" You sound like a nice guy, I just hate these myths th

"I am aware I have started a thread that is drifting way off topic and can potentially get very personal" You sound like a nice guy, I just hate these myths that the US is somehow a hellhole compared to Europe. And you failed to demonstrate why the US is less free than Europe. "We can then talk about why I pay almost identical income taxes in the USA and in Spain" USA: top income tax rate and the top corporate tax rate are 35 percent. Spain: top income tax rate is 45 percent, and the top corporate tax rate is 35 percent. Now for the jugular (from heritage.org)! USA: Unemployment: 5.5%, $39,676 per capita Spain: Unemployment: 11%, GDP per capita $25,047 It would seem that Americans are almost twice as wealthy as Spaniards, pay less income tax, and have more than half the unemployment.