• Djeece
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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

          So unless I pay lower taxes, I don’t pay power taxes? Brilliant fucking conclusion you’ve come to there

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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.

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              1 year ago

              because the US also has some of the worst inequalities of the modern world.

              Ok and I care why?

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                1 year ago

                Because maybe, just maybe, you’re a good person?

                Oh and also because pretty much every economist agrees that lower inequalities are better for the economy. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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                  Oh and also because pretty much every economist agrees that lower inequalities are better for the economy

                  Sorry, I don’t consider the purpose of life to be optimizing spreadsheets.

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                    Ah yes, not a good person even when it would be advantageous to you, sorry I forgot you’re actively trying to be an asshole lmao We had already established that, sorry.