This isn't about fairness but instead so that other countries don't have to correct their spending issues and can inflict the same pain on their contemporaries.

Even in the US there are politicians who want to have all states implement similar taxation rules or penalize those who move one state to live in another. The absurdity of taxation rules never ceases to amaze me, let alone the punitive actions of politicians who go after people and groups who don't adhere to their rules.

Worse, the EU tends to think of beneficial tax polices to people and corporations as subsidies where in the US the government calls it a tax expenditure.

People need to wake up. Taxation view points are closely paralleled to privacy issues. Politicians and many left leaning groups think that all money belongs to government as do most rights. The same goes for privacy rules, in that many think you should have protection only from other individuals and private groups by government does not have to grant the same and in fact can decide how much you should keep.