US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums
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US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums
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#2Not just that, they are also getting nothing in return.
The US voters need to realize just how much are they getting fucked over by the military-industrial complex.
I’m not against taxes, I’m against taxes that go to pay for wars as opposed to medical insurance, infrastructure and education.
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#3I once considered relocating with the same company to a similar role in London. The base pay in London is lower, and the marginal tax rates are high, but overall cost of living isn't too terribly far off (compared to the SF Bay Area), and doing calculations like these it seemed that while it would be something of a step down total compensation-wise, it wasn't nearly as large of one as it at first seemed. I didn't make the jump, but actually doing the math made it seem a lot more reasonable than it did at the outset.
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#4Not just that, they are also getting nothing in return. The US voters need to realize just how much are they getting fucked over by the military-industrial complex. I’m not against taxes, I’m against taxes that go to pay for wars as opposed to medical insurance, infrastructure and education.
Yeah, it’s totally insane, working Americans pay for a Nordic-level welfare state but don’t get it (fun times for rich Americans though).
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#5I never understood why people are against some form of universal healthcare. The idea of "socialism" or "communism" scare many conservatives, but it just doesn't make sense here.
How universal healthcare sorta works - we all put money in a pot, and use it to pay for healthcare.
How health insurance works - we put money into a company, who uses it to pay for healthcare, while taking a significant cut as it's a private entity.
With the correct organization (which the government is notoriously terrible at) it would seem to me that it could only be cheaper to have taxpaid healthcare?
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#6Not just that, they are also getting nothing in return. The US voters need to realize just how much are they getting fucked over by the military-industrial complex. I’m not against taxes, I’m against taxes that go to pay for wars as opposed to medical insurance, infrastructure and education.
That budget seems to be always nonnegotiable, despite the occasional media outrage. Realistically, how can US voters change this?
As an aside, the US is the only country I've seen give military personnel priority boarding for civilian flights. With all due respect to veterans, it seems so strange to do this sort of worshiping in what is effectively peacetime.
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#7Not just that, they are also getting nothing in return. The US voters need to realize just how much are they getting fucked over by the military-industrial complex. I’m not against taxes, I’m against taxes that go to pay for wars as opposed to medical insurance, infrastructure and education.
Unfortunately all that waste creates millions of jobs. If military and healthcare costs were brought under control too quickly, it would literally destroy the economy.
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#8It’s worse if you include 401k payments to offset a more generous public pension.
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#9Misappropriation of funds due to lobbying and regulatory capture.
The film 'Vice' on Dick Cheney outlines just how permeable American government is to such non-public interests.
It's no wonder tax avoidance is such an interesting topic for those who stand to pay the most if they do nothing.
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#10I never understood why people are against some form of universal healthcare. The idea of "socialism" or "communism" scare many conservatives, but it just doesn't make sense here. How universal healthcare sorta works - we all put money in a pot, and use it to pay for healthcare. How health insurance works - we put money into a company, who uses it to pay for healthcare, while taking a significant cut as it's a private…
Trusting in a private company that must react to market changes is different than trusting in a government that doesn't listen to you anyway.