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The UK seems to be in a really horrible and sad spot. Personally I would leave. From banning encryption, kitchen knives, to spending the money from an outrageous tax system on bringing in Muslims who don’t care a lick about western society. The weather isn’t even pleasant!
Is this was happens in Europe though? You go from turbo hivemind cucked socialism and then going to swing aggressively right into strong ethno-nationalism and provoke WWIII? History would make that seem so
Taxes in the UK are higher than in some low-tax US states (although places like Texas have very high property taxes, while the UK has almost none, particularly on expensive homes), but the difference with high tax US places like NYC or SF is pretty minimal.
Texas has very high sticker property taxes, but in practice established homeowners don't pay sticker price- there are a bevy of exemptions, and only people wealthy enough for second homes and landlords(and the low functioning, but most of those don't buy homes) have to pay the full amount for more than a year or two. Texas property taxes are still high but they aren't high enough to reach blue state levels of taxation.
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It does appear that UK taxes are only slightly higher than the US. The real extreme outliers are in continental Europe.
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/global/tax-burden-on-labor-oecd-2024/
But there's a big difference. UK taxation effects lower income people. For example, in the UK, all income above about $60k is taxed at 40%. And VAT is 20%.
In the US, on the other hand, a gigantic proportion of tax revenue comes from high income individuals. About half of federal income tax is paid by people making more than $500,000/year.
The UK, having few high earners compared to the US, is forced to extract eye-watering tax rates from middle class people. The UK tax system is both less progressive than the US, and there are fewer rich people. So regular people get squeezed hard in a way they don't in the US.
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I doubt that’s true when factoring in VAT.
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