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In Germany only 40+% of your income goes to taxes and social security. Plus another meager ~20% on most things you buy. Plus a small tax on many things that are supposedly bad for you, like ~70% on cigarettes. Death is taxed at a discount, only 15-40% depending on how rich you were. "Free" healthcare though. It's a bargain!
"Free" healthcare always turns out to be the most expensive healthcare.
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In Germany only 40+% of your income goes to taxes and social security. Plus another meager ~20% on most things you buy. Plus a small tax on many things that are supposedly bad for you, like ~70% on cigarettes. Death is taxed at a discount, only 15-40% depending on how rich you were. "Free" healthcare though. It's a bargain!
"Free" healthcare always turns out to be the most expensive healthcare.
The worst healthcare is in reality American healthcare. We pay through the nose for the privilege of getting terrible results.
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"Free" healthcare always turns out to be the most expensive healthcare.
This take is wildly out of sync with the reality that the U.S., as one of the few developed nations without free healthcare, pays more for their healthcare than all of them while having worse than average outcomes. The worst healthcare is in reality American healthcare. We pay through the nose for the privilege of getting terrible results.
Is it expensive? Yes. Does it work? Absolutely.
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There's a note at the end > You could, of course, sell or wind down your company, which would solve all problems outlined here. But this is not an option for most entrepreneurs. For a software business, you could presumably: - Incorporate a company in your country of choice - Transfer subscribers from German company to new foreign company (depending on payments provider, this can be a massive effort, for example, not…
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