• SimplyKnorax@sh.itjust.works
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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.

    • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      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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        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

        • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works
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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

                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 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⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯