"In the end, the amounts you pay (reduced by half because of employer contributions) are relatively low." I typed 100k/year into brutto-netto-rechner and it sh

"In the end, the amounts you pay (reduced by half because of employer contributions) are relatively low." I typed 100k/year into brutto-netto-rechner and it shows that Netto is less than 65k. Basically over 35% of your salary gets confiscated by the state, of course this doesn't include further taxes like 19% VAT you pay every time you buy anything at all. How is that "relatively low"?