Canadians pay less taxes than Americans

[outsider]

http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10835581

Mar 12th 2008
From Economist.com
PAYING TAXES is, for most people, both unavoidable and irksome. But how much hard-earned pay is taken by governments varies considerably across the world. Among the rich countries of the OECD, Germans shell out the most, with a worker earning an average income giving 43% of their gross pay to the state, with nearly half of that going towards social security. Workers in Poland hand over nearly 25% of their wages to social security; whereas Australians pay nothing at all directly. Mexicans and South Koreans enjoy the lightest taxation by some way.
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[Kewl]

whats the basis of average income? these things are so dumb, to really understand which countries get shafted the most on taxes you have to look deeper then a bar graph.

[HaloGuardian]

I bet in the US it's actually over 50%, and I don't see inflation taken into account.

[cursed74]

I'm guessing that graph doesn't include state income tax since not all states have one.

[HaloGuardian]

Now looking at it all it includes is income tax and social security and nothing else. No medicaid/medicare, state/city income tax, sales tax, gas tax, sin tax, etc. etc. etc.