[automatic6131]

>I wonder when did we normalize 40-60% taxation

It's generally common, these days, to blame everything that isn't perfect on the state. Pandemic? State must sort it out. Bad parents? State. Interpersonal violence? State. Crime? State. Infrastructure needed? State. Children are hungry? State.

For better or ill (and I'd say better) 40% taxation is here to stay, since we have all become left wing, now.

[ricardobayes]

I mean, there's a "slight" difference between taxing 10% vs 50%, so I guess it's kind of okay to demand some things in return.

[secabeen]

>Pandemic? State must sort it out. Bad parents? State. Interpersonal violence? State. Crime? State. Infrastructure needed? State. Children are hungry? State.

> For better or ill (and I'd say better) 40% taxation is here to stay, since we have all become left wing, now.

I think it's largely better, because people who are impacted by those incidents in an outsized way often become revolutionaries, or radicals, and they tear down the state that has failed to support them. I'd rather pay 30-40% tax and have a stable government and a low-crime society than a 15-20% one and have to pay for my own personal security and to worry if the next government is going to decide that my property is to be seized.