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Taxes in Switzerland are quite low. Federal around 2 or 3 %, and at the state level, from 7% to 22%. Wealth tax is usually less than 1%. But it is always a level society.
Taxes in Bulgaria are quite low too (10% for businesses and 5% when you pay dividends). Salaries are extremely low too, compared to Switzerland. Unfortunately Bulgaria doesn't look like Switzerland at all, I wonder why.
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The US was like this some years earlier. Those were the prosperous years where everyone was capable of achieving the American dream. Then the tax cuts for industries came into effect and the middle class bore the blunt of it and dwindled. The wealthy are able to avoid this since they can afford to pay an army of lawyers to channel their wealth through loopholes. A social safety net is essential for progress. There ar…
And the solution is not to split the country but to fix the broken system. Leaving aside the preposterous rewriting of U.S. history in your comment (the US was never like modern Switzerland, even when it was significantly more homogenous), your goal is not possible with the current size and cultural diversity of the US. If you want social safety nets, you need a homogeneous culture that stresses (irrationally) not ta…
And among middle-of-the-road diversity nations it seems to be aminly the anglosphere that feels it is difficult.