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Danes and Swedes are the highest taxed people in Europe, according to research published on Monday (29 April). Denmark and Sweden claim tax revenues accounting for 47.7 percent of economic output and 44.5 percent respectively. The two countries also have the highest top rates of income tax at 55.6 and 56.5 percent respectively. Meanwhile, citizens in Lithuania, Bulgaria and Latvia are the least taxed, with governments taking between 26 percent and 28 percent. Tax rates have risen across the board, particularly among the four EU bailout countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Cyprus), as cash-strapped governments bid to balance budgets against...

Every year average Americans pay dozens of different types of taxes, and yet many of our politicians are very open about the fact that they want to raise rates even higher and invent even more ways to bleed us all dry. Someday historians will look back and be absolutely amazed at how stupid we were. We have the most complicated tax code in all of human history and at this point the federal tax code is more than four times as long as the entire collected works of William Shakespeare. In many places it is so incomprehensible that nobody...

If you're already on nitroglycerin and pissed off, then you probably shouldn't read the list. So, for all of you that felt like you've taken it in the shorts today, thank you for paying your taxes. For those of you that got a refund with no interest, maybe it's time to adjust that W-4. Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and our nation was the most prosperous in the world, had no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world and only one parent had to work to support the family. A list of taxes...