You can do all the back of the napkin math you want, that still isn't a citation. I have seen too much bad back of the napkin math where small under/overestimat

You can do all the back of the napkin math you want, that still isn't a citation. I have seen too much bad back of the napkin math where small under/overestimations add up to numbers that don't actually match reality. > And you are sticking to tables of income and tax rates and claiming that income tax is 51% not 80 or 85%. At the same you decide to ignore my claim was the overall earning you do over you life will be taken away by the state. Surely you can understand the concept of overall tax burden. I was looking at the numbers from the other page that you posted that showed that the TOTAL tax burden at ALL levels of government vs GPD was ~36% which was slightly higher than the OECD average which was 34%. That places it in the middle of the pack for Europe.