Comment on I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system?

LightDelaBlue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• oDDmON@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I pray there comes a time when the people decide what their taxes are spent on. Could be done using a simple form, with a dozen or so broad categories to choose from, submitted with your tax return.

  I bet the results would shock the shit out of the politicians.

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  • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d like to just start with having to send a check every two weeks instead of allowing them to just deduct it.

    Make people physically pay their tax, that’s how you get engagement. And they know that, which is why it’s NOT like that.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The only thing that would do is make people hate taxes.

      Americans already don’t include taxes on their prices in shops in order to make the consumer mad at politicians because of “how much tax they have to pay”, while it is just a ploy by the corporations to lower the taxes so they can improve their profit.

      Society needs money in order to exist. Taxes are the best solution to pay for the stuff no ordinary individual would want to spend money on. Like road repair, firefighters, huge healthcare costs, …

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s more famously going towards banks, ISP’s, and airlines… Basically all the things we hate the most.

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• Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t understand why american are OK with that

  Because there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it?

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