leaving the question:

Sure. That's part of the reason why low and medium earners come out ahead whereas high earners are unlikely to. Taxes are higher, and they are progressive, i.e. you'll pay a higher tax the more you earn. Which hurts those who earn a lot offcourse.

On the flipside a lot of stuff is *included* in your tax that is extra in many other countries, which conversely benefits low and medium earners. For example there's no such thing as health-insurance needed in Norway, full coverage is part of what the taxes cover.

Germany, for example, has somewhat lower taxes, but from your gross is subtracted not only taxes, but also health-insurance, unemployment-insurance, pensions, nursing-insurance etc etc, all of these are non-progressive. (i.e. a flat percentage)

This is getting seriously offtopic though; I was just wondering if the open source job-thing was only for US positions. Seems that it is.