The tax/social contributions stuff can be cherry picked to become very high and very low to support any point people want to make.
There are employer contributions in Germany that are recently counted in such calculations to prove a point, while leaving costs for "benefits" in US companies off the table when doing the comparison.
Some like to add the VAT to the "what life costs here", which is a 19% (except for necessities, which are at 7%).
If you refuse to accept such calculations that mix up tax brackets (popular error in that space), that immediately filters out 90% of them.
There are employer contributions in Germany that are recently counted in such calculations to prove a point, while leaving costs for "benefits" in US companies off the table when doing the comparison.
Some like to add the VAT to the "what life costs here", which is a 19% (except for necessities, which are at 7%).
If you refuse to accept such calculations that mix up tax brackets (popular error in that space), that immediately filters out 90% of them.