If you do the math, in Europe, the state takes between 50% and 70% of what you earn.

That is, in the best case scenario, the state decides what will be done with 50% of your money, which is your time, which is your freedom, you only have the other half to decide.

Democracy? Freedom? Smells like communism, ergo it is communism.

Now some statist bootlicker will come and tell me something about roads and hospitals, but I'd rather ride a horse on dirt tracks and cure myself with herbs than have 70% of what I earn with my sweat taken away from me and spent by politicians on whores and cocaine.