Let's take my province for example:
We have free healthcare for everyone. We pay zillions of taxes and have NO SERVICE. Yea, if you go to the hospital, expect to wait around 8 hours to see a doctor unless you're in REALLY bad shape.
Taxes? Well, we have a 15% sales tax, we have income taxes that goes up and up QUITE FAST in % (lets say that if you make more than 50k a year, you are probably in the 40%+ range and it goes up to like 50%.
There is also some special taxes on many products, like tobacco, alcohol, fuel, etc.
For sure, if you are really rich, there is many ways to pay less taxes. Also, if you work for the construction (aka the mafia), well you only have to declare a little of your revenue, everything else is not declared.
And our debt is quite big (even if the US is getting on our level recently).
Oh, and if you don't have a job, don't worry, we have something called social something that will give you money each month. For sure, you can find ways to claim more than one, get a job that is not declared and abuse the health system at the same time. And it all works for immigrants after 3 months, so even if many really want to work when they come here, well MANY end up asking for their check after 3 months. And you can stay on this FOREVER.
But it's all free hey!