I do not disagree that EU is high-taxed and overregulated... However your numbers do not make sense, you cannot just add these percentages up. They are percentages of different amounts. In your example let's say company profits 1000 and decides to pay out everything through dividend. First corporate tax︀ really is 25%, then withholding divi tax would be 0,05*0,75=3,75% from the initial amount, personal︁ income would be 0,2*0,7125=14,25% from the initial amount, VAT would be 0,57*0,2=11,4% of the initial︂ amount. So the total tax burden in your example is 54,4% (which actually matches some︃ Western European countries very closely). For most people this amount can be deducted by some︄ fixed amount/discount.
I wonder what is︈ more "risky" these days. Living in France, paying 60% tax, going on a strike occasionally︉ and pretending the world is fine? Or deciding to get out and choosing another country︊ to live in?
You mention "stress", isn't that what is necessary in live? So many︋ people choose to live a stress-free life and end up in some corporation doing some︌ bulls**t like selling insurance. You need some stress in your life, and I even think︍ that living in an "instable" country can open eyes to you. I'm not saying you︎ should move to Tajikistan and spend rest of your life there but getting out of️ your nice and comfy country can really be eye opening. Do you know how many Americans never even travelled outside the US?
Effective taxation is not 70%, even in Denmark, France or Sweden it is more like︀ 50-55%. Yes, it is ridiculously high but not that high. Remember the Laffer curve, if︁ you increase taxes too high, people will tell you to f**k off. I think there︂ are some low-tax countries (Andorra, Monaco, actually even Switzerland is relatively low-tax). I admit it's︃ true that low-tax countries often have hidden fees which you only notice after you actually︄ live there.
This is how it worked for the past at least 5000 years, someone has rule︌ over a territory (pharaoh, king, nobleman, a "democracy") and uses repressive forces to enforce his︍ interests. Only in the past it was more honest (a sheriff/reeve came to your house︎ and took some gold coins), now it is more
unostentatious (inflation, insurance, sector tax, solidarity️ tax, currency interventions, subsidies, wealth transfer tax, inheritance tax) so people don't realize it. I don't know any good solution or substitution for this system. I guess a country/national state is still better than tribes and lords fighting with each other... 😕
However, a change may be coming (just look at Bitcoin and other stuff), yet there are people believing in the fairness and rightness of the system and these will be most threatened (there is a "social contract between state and citizen", "state will take care of you", "state will protect you", "you will have retirement", "we will protect you from your idiocy").
Actually it's︀ exciting that today you really can leave and go elsewhere because in 99% of the︁ history you didn't have such options or they were very limited.
I find it ridiculous that people︅ have these opinions about other countries (be it Panama, Belize, Brazil, Georgia) based on a︆ rumour or a Wikipedia statistics. If you behave like a retard, you can get into︇ trouble in Sweden as easily as in Panama. Why exactly would it be an unsafe︈ country? Nothing is about "comfort" or "life balance", these are meaningless middle-class buzzwords. You shouldn't︉ expect to just live in comfort and that's it. Yes, it is possible but will︊ that be a life worth living?
