> this sentiment is widely shared across europe Citation needed. Anecdotally there are articles such as https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=89&furtherN

> this sentiment is widely shared across europe Citation needed. Anecdotally there are articles such as https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=89&furtherNews=yes&newsId=10509&langId=en https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=89&furtherNews=ye... claiming that "half of Europeans support higher taxes" although in the breakdown it also counts taxes paid by others, which is of course easier to support as an individual. But I also can't find a source claiming that Europeans are "widely" unhappy with the taxes they paid and what they get in return. Obviously HN users are not representative of the wider population, because of a bias towards higher-income brackets.