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Imagine thinking there is no corruption up there, or no taxes down there

People being fine with higher taxes is a function of a trustworthy system where tax money actually goes to spending that benefits the tax payer.
If the expectation is that the funds get misplaced/pocketed/diverted along the way your average citizen will be far more willing (and view it as far more morally justifiable) to make efforts to avoid/reduce paying taxes.

I live in high taxes high corruption part of it

Max-stats 😎

The corruption is a lovely place to holiday in though

Until you realize your life is in fucking danger there. Nearly every summer, in Greece, we are dealing with wildfires.
Last year, there was a fire in Rhodes during September. People were jumping in the sea to save their life. The response of the government was to provide vouchers to tourists from foreign countries, so that they will visit again next year.
The government gave no shit to Greek people, and I don't really think people from other countries dared to come again.
Besides the issues with emergency services, there are also pricing problems. I only know about Greece and Turkey. In tourist areas of those countries, all prices are inexcusably high.
- This year a wildfire started in the center of fucking Athens.

Lol, imagine being so naive (or dense) you think these two things can exist without each other.

In Hungary, the effective tax rate is 33%, we also have 27%(!) VAT, but hey, if you're making the grandchildren of Fidesz voters work "real manly job", you can get a 0% tax rate on your business.
- we also have 27%(!) VAT
  That's wild

Or go to Britain and get both

Same for Germany ¯(ツ)/¯
- Come to Cologne, where people are proud of the corruption and nepotism, affectionately called "Klüngel", that directly turns their tax money into profit for some clever Jeck. For example via an opera house that was supposed to cost 250 million and is currently projected to cost about 1,5 billion.

My country has made it! We're now taxes and not corruption! 🎉

At least places with taxes have:

a functioning health care system,
actual mental health system, not just suggestions from politicians to "go to a church instead";
job options for the disabled that aren't either a brutally underpaid communal work program, or taken out from some frat boy politician's favorite rtrd joke, who also think people in wheelchair are just "too dumb to even stand up", and autistic people are "just intellectual rtrds, whose moms slept with their teachers to not get transferred to special ed".

And why is that? Whats the difference between those places that manifests itself in such a way...

Why not both?

Flatten that circle into Russia and you basically have the line between Butter Europe and Olive Oil Europe.

Politicians in Germany are corrupt as fuck tho.

It's called lobbyism here, so it's okay.
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Man these Texas is big jokes are getting out of hand

Reads meme again

Oh right…

Shitpost ≠ shitty post

Thanks to American Exceptionalism we have both.

So do you have the president of the central bank steal a third of your yearly GDP while you get taxed 45% on your income, 32% on everything you buy, and also on random bullshit?
Amateurs.

Taxes. Because I have a brain and understand how a civil, functioning society, works.

This site is genuinely moronic

Redditor trying new grounds…

As a matter of fact I used Reddit only to find Lemmy and that took less than two weeks. Never came back.

Slovakia has both taxes and corruption. Yay.

UK is in which zone ... ?

Yes

Taxes for certain

For certain people, yes

Moronic post.

This is extremely accurate based on my 25 years of working in CEE.

Not accurate enough. France falls into the corruption category.

It falls into both actually: the best of both worlds!

I'm actually wondering how much of this has to do with the climate, i.e. the physical weather patterns. something like: living in northern countries historically meant that you had a tougher time getting through the winter, because the winters are harsher and longer, so you need to store more food and make sure it doesn't spoil, which requires extra planning. so as a historical consequence, northern countries end up with a higher degree of organization, including bigger states, more organized tax systems, overall more organized structures.

You can see many examples of this. all big empires historically have had their center on the northern hemisphere, including england, US, europe, USSR, china. there's (almost) none on the south.

That's cute.
Now add Gibraltar to the map.

I'd say Germany does not have high taxes IF YOU ARE RICH. Also Germany has lots oft corruption, in my opinion, most oft it is not seen by many people.

Ah, a distinction without a difference