Europe's tax burden now exceeds forty percent of GDP across most of the continent. This means governments have claimed nearly half of everything produced. They have, in effect, reduced their populations to tenant farmers, allowed to work the land but forbidden to keep the harvest.
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The most sad part about all this, is that there are some folks who actually think paying more taxes is the responsible thing to do or else civilization crumbles
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