• Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1 year ago

    “Astronomically”.

    This is like making fun of a fireman using a bucket of water that’s twice as large as your bucket to put out a house fire.

    They pay twice as much in taxes. Vs the ludicrous cost of most basic citizen necessities in the United States .

    Pay twice as much in taxes, you get affordable/basically free healthcare and adorable/basically free higher education(medical school is 2k a year in France). Affordable, reliable long-distance transportation/physical transportation infrastructure, a living and functional social security, but sure. Careful of those taxes you could pay that would cover all basic human necessities plus all major financial concerns until you croak.

    As an example, instead of paying $3,000 in taxes per year, you could pay $6,000 in taxes per year, and you would be free to pursue any education you liked, including medical school, for $1000-$2000 per year instead of paying 30k per year just to learn core classes. Good thing you saved that 3k during tax season.

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        1 year ago

        Sounds a lot like “it’s not my problem until it actually affects me personally”.

        I don’t know why people want to avoid paying as little taxes as possible when it basically improves the infrastructures/services in their own communities.

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          Sounds a lot like “it’s not my problem until it actually affects me personally”.

          That is, fundamentally, the definition of “my problem”. If I’m not effected, it isn’t my problem, simply by nature of not effecting me. Not exactly sure what point you’re trying to make with it.

          I don’t know why people want to avoid paying as little taxes as possible when it basically improves the infrastructures/services in their own communities

          Because I have little interest in community services and infrastructure.

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            I mean, when you consider the US government spends more (almost twice as much) on healthcare per capita than most countries with free healthcare, you’re literally paying more taxes for it AND you have to shell out 50k$ when something bad happens.

            Your only argument is “Taxes bad” even when we’re talking about a system that would actually cost less taxes, just because it has a side effect of also helping less fortunate people.

            How much more egocentric can you get lmao

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              you’re literally paying more taxes for it AND you have to shell out 50k$ when something bad happens

              And yet my taxes are significantly lower than if I were in any of the countries with socialized systems.

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                1 year ago

                Not unless you’re in like Arizona or Florida or other shit low-taxes states full of freedumb.

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                    1 year ago

                    Nah what I’m saying is that most states’ taxation rates are pretty close to what you’d get in other developed countries.

                    Except pretty much every other developed country has cheap healthcare and education. The US is truly alone in this, and it shows, because the US also has some of the worst inequalities of the modern world.