[icey]

It's odd to see so many countries rank higher than us that are normally thought of as having significantly higher taxes than us.

(Fair amount of "socialist" in that list, too)

[jbellis]

Partly that's because while US personal taxes are middle-of-the-pack-ish, their corporate tax rate of 35% is behind only Japan: http://alhambrainvestments.com/blog/2009/01/29/corporate-tax...

(And partly it's because there's a lot more that goes into the ranking than just tax rate.)

[lutorm]

Maybe economic freedom has nothing to do with how much taxes you pay...

[anamax]

Americans don't pay less in taxes, they just get less services.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/03/taxes-per-person.html