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Originally Posted by pablissimo
Are you retarded?
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Its impossible to calculate how much of your income is taxed indirectly, but 60% doesnt sound that unreasonable. Taxation as a %ge of GDP is 46%, but that doesnt include the myriad of subtle forms of taxation we have including things like inflation, the minimum wage, and expensive state trains/tube systems. Then you have the indirect role that government policy plays in driving up prices in areas it subsidises. 60% may be slightly too high, but probably not by much.
It really depends how you want to slice things up though, and theres probably no objective way of doing it or calculating the monetary effects that policies have. Should the criminalisation of marijuana be counted as an indirect subsidy of the alcohol industry for instance? How much does that cost the average person each year?