Also, raising taxes to spend the money on immigrants? Are they purposely fueling the raise of right wing nationalists? Do they have any self-awareness?
Also, "spending money on immigrants" sounds like it's just being given to immigrants, the money is specifically to countries cope with the cost that is there already. It might fuel right wing nationalists, but that seems to happen anyway, while they are busy doing their thing, it would be nice if the sensible people tried to tackle the issues at hand.
Eeastern European countries generally have very low tax rates which brings the average down.
Otherwise they are 'ballpark similar' [1]
But that's only one source of taxation. As for the rest, they are very, very high in Europe.
I think the issues are probably in efficiencies across the board, more than redistribution at this point.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates
France 15% and 45%
Italy 27.9% and 43%
UK 19% and 47%
Spain 25% and 45%
Sure, California and some other special states can get almost as high. But the majority are well below.
All those taxes does not let lower middle class to move up. I see this all around me. There are exceptions of course, but the end result is that by simply working your whole life you are going to be forever in the lower middle class. Because of taxes.
But hey! Why not throw around some more claims without some proper sources/references.