France does exactly the same, 50% of the worker's salary goes straight to the government to fund social programs (i.e., somebody making 3k euros costs 6k to its employer). Then, on what's left of the salary people have to pay income tax (with inflation making it easy to reach the 30-40% brackets now), sales tax, property tax, local tax, capital gain tax, wealth tax and some more tax when you die. So yeah 75-90% taxation is probably the right range of what productive people pay to the government