Simple: we pay them so everybody gets healthcare, maternity leave, free university. Live is not only about me, myself and i, That is the “big” secret.

I see a lot of European flexing on USA thinking that somehow we are any different then US, in Reality we are actually living under the same political , sociopath economic climate and leadership. Weather we have a bit privatised health care or not are just minor diference in reality both Eu and Us are third world neoliberal, postcolonial Progresive Fascist failures with absolute abomination of any decent future for our kind. We are in one words Late Stage Capitalistic HellHole .

We don't pay as much as you believe and some of it comes back to us like with health care, yours fund Israel

We don’t pay insane taxes. We pay accordingly to our income, so there is enough left of our income to have a good life.