Something you almost never hear/read, but is nevertheless true: the average UK worker pays less tax on their wages than workers anywhere else in Europe (with the sole exception of Switzerland)

The Right doesn& #39;t like this, because they prefer the populist myth that the average person is over-taxed.

The Left doesn& #39;t like this, because they prefer the populist myth that we can achieve Continental levels of public services without Continental levels of taxation.

But we& #39;d have a better and more honest public discourse around tax if we started by acknowledging how things actually are.

"Tax wedge" stats from the OECD. Pretty map from the Tax Foundation. https://twitter.com/TaxFoundation/status/1260172883210440704?s=20">https://twitter.com/TaxFounda...