A Swedish contrast
It is often brought up that Scandinavian countries have higher income tax rates.
This is true. But what is also true is that Scandinavian countries have is competent government. Such competence can modesty comes from the time. Like this nugget that popped up on one of my social media feeds:
A Minister in the Swedish government taking the public train home and eating take away. No CommCar. No Toto 1. No Chairman’s Lounge. No Ministerial catering.
I would be prepared to pay Swedish taxes to get Swedish government.
Instead, this is what we get.