> as most high tax countries Yet you listed two relatively tiny countries. Which don’t even have (relatively) very high taxes. France, Spain, Italy, Portugal

> as most high tax countries Yet you listed two relatively tiny countries. Which don’t even have (relatively) very high taxes. France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece etc. all have higher taxes on labor https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/tax-wedge.html?oecdcontrol-521118a96c-var1=DNK%7CNOR%7CITA%7CFRA%7CESP%7CGRC%7CPRT%7CUSA https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/tax-wedge.html?oecdc... e.g. Denmark and Norway are closer to US than to France > have full employment and very high standards of living for decades now Yet those standards have barely improved over those decades. Prior to 2009 the gap between US and the EU was closing, not it is the complete opposite.