Exactly. I get free healthcare like someone who’s being paid minimum wage (or an unemployed person who has registered as unemployed), but I also pay a significant amount in taxes and for most of my career, that has been money that comes from outside my own country and mostly outside the EU, as I’ve worked for software companies selling their products/services to foreign markets.
Plenty of reason to hate me, but getting free stuff from the gvt isn’t one of them, I pay way more for it.
Ah fair enough, not sure the reduced VAT for bread of children’s clothing is going to matter much compared to the insane 1000+ euro kindergarten fees per kid monthly (in the Netherlands). Some of the rest might be nice places to live though.