[rebolek]

If you compare the West to the USSR, you certainly don't know what you are talking about. Taxation in the East block was really not the problem.

[baybal2]

I'm not talking about per se taxation, but the split how much economic value of your work you get in your pocket with a paycheck.

In USSR, 60 percent of economic value of labour was taken by the state. The West went from <20% to over 50% since WW2 and is about exceed that 60% soon.