I suspect you are being voted down because the facts aren't on your side.
Firstly "Europe" isn't a single country, and by putting basket cases like Greece in the same class as Germany you weaken your argument.
It concerns the welfare system that has grown too big to be sustained by income taxes.
You need some facts to support that. Government spending in Germany is 43% of GDP, 45% in the Netherlands and 38% in the US. Most people would say the German and Dutch economies are stronger than the US economy at the moment.
Even having a taxation that is now close to 50% of the GDP
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/48/27/41498733.pdf lists tax as a percentage of GDP. The only country with tax close to 50% of GDP is Denmark (which has a strong economy). Greece is 31%, the US 28%. Australia and Canada (examples of developed nations with strong economies) are 30.6% and 33.3%. That doesn't seem to indicate a direct link at all.
What is driving now the crisis are public expenses, don't fool around with other fantasies.
The evidence doesn't seem to support that.
Please address the example of Ireland (where there was no public debt crisis until the government bailed out the banks) and Iceland (where banks weren't bailed out, welfare and tax are high but the economy is growing again).
Firstly "Europe" isn't a single country, and by putting basket cases like Greece in the same class as Germany you weaken your argument.
It concerns the welfare system that has grown too big to be sustained by income taxes.
You need some facts to support that. Government spending in Germany is 43% of GDP, 45% in the Netherlands and 38% in the US. Most people would say the German and Dutch economies are stronger than the US economy at the moment.
Even having a taxation that is now close to 50% of the GDP
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/48/27/41498733.pdf lists tax as a percentage of GDP. The only country with tax close to 50% of GDP is Denmark (which has a strong economy). Greece is 31%, the US 28%. Australia and Canada (examples of developed nations with strong economies) are 30.6% and 33.3%. That doesn't seem to indicate a direct link at all.
What is driving now the crisis are public expenses, don't fool around with other fantasies.
The evidence doesn't seem to support that.
Please address the example of Ireland (where there was no public debt crisis until the government bailed out the banks) and Iceland (where banks weren't bailed out, welfare and tax are high but the economy is growing again).