Sorry America, Your Taxes Aren’t High
But if you disagree, think about moving to Chile or New Zealand.
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Americans generally feel they’re being over-taxed, especially around this time of the year. Even their president agrees:
“With lower taxes on America’s middle class and businesses, we will see a new surge of economic growth and development,” Donald Trump said this month, expanding on an earlier promise to cut Uncle Sam’s bill “massively.” But the reality is that the average U.S. worker pays quite a bit less than he would elsewhere in the developed world. And what’s more, this has been the case for a long time.