Including federal and state taxes as well as social security and
medicare as amounts one pays to governments, how do we as americans
compare to other countries in the percentage taken from our pay?

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 25 Jan 2006 05:48 PST

The OECD regularly makes comparisons of total tax rates in different
countries.  Their latest summary report can be seen here:



http://www.oecd.org/document/49/0,2340,en_2649_201185_30481201_1_1_1_1,00.html
Taxing Wages 2003/2004 


At the bottom of the page are links to graphics and tables for the report.



Does this report answer your question?



pafalafa-ga

This is difficult to compare, because in many other industrialised
countries, health insurance is partially taken from the salary, while
in the United States it isn't.