So what? It's the PRESIDENT of EU, regardless of power... It says a lot about who's in charge of EU, the globalists. That's why BREXIT occurred, that's why Trump won: to fight them.
That's the problem. You should never be responsible to judge how he spends his money, that's his problem.
You never know. You don't know if it was only 10%, he could use those 40% much better than the "government", oh hell, be damn sure he would.
He could create companies, could fund companies, could put this money in funds, those funds would have to fund companies to earn money, these would generate jobs, education, etc.
"Times of higher tax burden have been economically more productive" -> this is just false, a falacy. Prove it somehow.
Sweden was a very rich nation before high taxes, now it's just rich, net jobs after high taxation in 50 years is ZERO. They are just letting go now, cutting taxes more and more.
I wonder why US economy is booming right now, maybe because Trump is going to cut taxes?!
Opportunities as a young person costs 50% of what he makes?! Please don't pretend to be naive.
I thought it was common sense by now that this tax money goes to highly payed politicians, corruption, bad public administration, bad public programs, lazy people, etc.
A 10% tax should be the maximum a citizen should pay in any country.
And it will be in the future, distant future, but you can be damn sure that it will be.
Obama, the president that estimulated racial fights, did not have too much respect for the law, for police officers, etc... So under Trump, a president that respects AND shows repect for policemen, expect stupid policemen having a much harder time than before.
1) So you are happy to pay "drastically higher taxes" to fund some social programs, have you actually calculated what percentage of your income would be necessary to achieve that? And even with higher taxes, that would not be possible at all? And since taxes are coercively taken from everyone, not only from people that are apparently fine with that, that people who would otherwise hire or build new business that could employ poor people are running out? 2) Do you really expect outsource either money (taxes) and time (you do nothing) to politicians and get results as an outcome? 3) Do you know that you can be a capitalist without being a heartless capitalist pig? 4) Do you know that your progressive ideas is killing America because that didn't work in any country in no time in history?