Belgium the liberal country

Belgium is a very open minded country and this can be seen in sevral of their laws. Some great examples are that Belgium has legalised euthanasia in 2002, and gay marriage in 2003. Belgium also became the world's first country to ban cluster bombs, and second to ban forced marriages. Belgium is the country with the highest proportion of female ministers in the world (55% in 2000) and one of the earliest to have a female parliamentarian (in 1921), and Belgium is the country that grants the most new citizenships per capita in the world after Canada. As you can see Belgium is a very liberal place, but all these traits are severely checked by the amount of taxes a person pays. You pay, on average, more than 40 percent of your gross income in taxes.