Your obsession with tax rates is obviously related to your lifetime of listening to the propoganda of noted oxycontin drug addict Rush Limbaugh and fellow performers at Faux News.
It is the same money whether you pay it in taxes or pay it directly out of your pocket.
Swedes and Danes pay higher taxes so that their out-of-pocket expenses for health care, child care, day care, et al. is lower or non-existent.
We make the opposite choice, in some ways.
But it is all the same money.
It comes down to a choice. And simply bellowing out "high taxes!" does not cut the mustard, any more than claiming Democrats want to emulate Fidel Castro