It cost 25 dollars to get an mri. What a hospital charges isn’t what you pay. You pay what the final bill states.

That is false. So easy to prove you wrong and maybe educate you a bit on the topic of taxes

manhattan.institute/…/correcting-the-top-10-tax-m…

In reality, these European tax systems do not fit the American progressive image because their higher revenues are overwhelmingly raised through steep income, payroll, and consumption taxes on the middle class.

Moreover, top rates imposed on corporations and wealthy families in the U.S. often exceed OECD averages