I moved to Finland a while back. Taxes are indeed sky-high, but at the same time I can see that they're being used.

Streets are clean, local transport works (busses, trams, local-trains), education is world-leading, healthcare is great, etc, etc.

I'm sure there are people scamming money off the top, corruption is universal, but I can't begrudge paying taxes when the country seems to be so well run.

(I'm a foreigner, I suspect I wouldn't know if it were badly run!)