deleted_user: EU is an annoying socialist hive of thievery.
This year I paid over €40,000 in taxes to them (in addition to all the taxes I pay at home) and I haven't even set foot there in years. And if someone thinks it's not a huge amount of money, yes you are right, but there's a nuance — it's MY money.
I have no idea what you are doing to have to pay that much in taxes, but I'd love to have to pay €40,000/year in taxes. (But probably I'd hate to pay it once I earned that kind of money to justify that amount of tax!)