Actually you can't avoid any tax, because for example the corporations incur the regulatory compliance costs, thus you pay these hidden taxes in terms of increased prices. You also forgot the taxes on fuel and taxes on insurance companies, etc..
And most people aren't average. Either they are below average, which means for example in the USA they are receiving earned income and child tax credits, which means they pay nearly no income tax and they receive welfare such as food stamps and rent assistance. Or they are above average, and pay even higher income taxes than your quoted figures assume.
Well in my country there are no really below average people. Our mighty comrade socialist government did resolved the inequality problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_opportunityThey did resolve it magnificently, by
making everyone poor!So instead of the mighty worker class, being strong, and you know all that red bullshit.
They actually make it the poorest slaves, by overtaxing them, because in my country the workers are the only ones that pay taxes.
So instead of making them strong and proud and all that propaganda, they make them the poorest loosers and slaves who need to work 18 hours/day to keep their house mortgage and shit.
While the elderly and jobless people get all the benefits, but even they dont get that much, they get a bone and they can chew it. It's all fking propaganda, before elections they get like 10% deductions of groceries, and thats all.
So while the worker class is paying 55+ % taxes (up to 80%) the unemployed and elderly gets a joke income, free welfare, but still very small.
And the politicians get to buy new caddilacs every single month from state money, yeah thats your socialism.
Everyone poor, but the politicians who are the blood sucking leeches of our country, they overtax us, and instead of atleast giving proper welfare, they just keep it for themselves.
And i`m against welfare, but atleast if they were socialists, atleast pretend themselves that they actually are, because at this point they seem like some vampires sucking on the blood of the working class

State welfare in Romania means literally what it means, it means that the statists (mostly politicians) get the welfare and everyone else gets a dick.