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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
US taxes don't include healthcare. Mine here in Norway included it. Any comparison with the US needs to include health costs if one is paid for mostly by taxes.. Otherwise, it isn't a fair comparison. 

And I'll note that my tax rate in Norway has never been that high for so little money. It really only happens at those incomes if you or your employer messed something up on taxes. Or possibly a second income or a vert high family income. Folks claim taxes are high here too.... Where the heck are you?
gpt
În Romania, all the taxes on your wage/salary amount to 45%, regardless of how much you make. 10% is the income tax, 10% is the retirement contribution, 25% is the healthcare contribution. 

All of these are mandatory and you get the same Healthcare services regardless of how much you make, which means different people pay vastly different amounts of money for the same (shitty) services. And if you want to use these free services the waiting list is months long. 

At the same time, the retirement contribution is used to pay the curent retired people instead of being invested. 

So basically, we pay 45% taxes on our salary but if we want decent Healthcare services we either pay for them or pay for an aditional private insurance and if we want a decent retirement, we need to invest additional money ourselves. 

No wonder tax evasion is through the roof. 

VAT is 19% or 6% depending on the goods and the corporate tax is either 1% of the income or 16% of the profit (depends on the size of the company), regardless of how much money the company makes so at least we got that.

At the same time, if the business owner wants to take dividends, the company pays 8% tax on that and if the  amount is higher than the anual minimum wage (7.200 EUR), he has to pay healthcare and retirement taxes as well. It's the same with all types other incomes (rent, investments, etc)

TLDR: în Romania we pay high taxes for basically nothing.