Her first point of contention is that the Dutch tax rate is 52% and that is unamerican. The average aggregate tax rate for Americans is about 31%. If you add in health insurance, employersponsored or otherwise, the "tax" is probably in the 40-45% range.
The Dutch have a lot of silly automatic benefits payments like a book allowance for children and a vacation expense allowance in addition to paid vacations. If you remove those, I suspect that there isn't a huge difference in tax rates, maybe less than 10%.
Mees devotes half her post to proving that the Netherlands isn't crime free by listing immigrant committed crimes that were so egregious that they made the news here. Case not proven.
Her first point of contention is that the Dutch tax rate is 52% and that is unamerican. The average aggregate tax rate for Americans is about 31%. If you add in health insurance, employersponsored or otherwise, the "tax" is probably in the 40-45% range.
The Dutch have a lot of silly automatic benefits payments like a book allowance for children and a vacation expense allowance in addition to paid vacations. If you remove those, I suspect that there isn't a huge difference in tax rates, maybe less than 10%.
Mees devotes half her post to proving that the Netherlands isn't crime free by listing immigrant committed crimes that were so egregious that they made the news here. Case not proven.