When you live abroad, you realize just how much Fed.gov views you as their slave. You don’t notice in the USA because their control is so complete
It also makes you a Pariah as no foreign financial firms or banks want to deal with you
[It also makes you a Pariah as no foreign financial firms or banks want to deal with you]
I lived in the UK back in the seventies. As I had a high compensation package my UK taxes were obscene to say the least. My company took what I would have been taxed in Houston, Texas and paid the difference to the UK government.
It was not a small amount. That was the company policy. When I lived in Oman with relatively small taxation they still withheld the same amount. It was very fair for the employees of this international company. All of us paid the same based on tax burdens based on Houston, Texas.