And of course, price increases for qualified workers in emerging economies simply reflect that productive workers are rare and need to be paid increasingly expensively (to be attracted, or to be trained).

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

This is why thsee tables (and the accompanying discourse) are so noxious:

• first, they perpetuate the idea of taxes as money wasted (instead of money used);

• second, by focusing on people that are in the categories that benefit less, today, from the transfers promoted by these taxes (education, healthcare, pensions, unemployment benefits), and that can thus see themselves as "losers" in the game, it is even easier to promote all that spending as waste, instead of legitimate for society, for the future, and for the majority of the members of society.