Submitted 8 months ago by altphoto@lemmy.today to [deleted]
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I don’t know who needs to know this but my take home pay looks like some bullshit. What rich asshole is taking half of my pay that goes to “taxes”?
Do you get value for your money in your country?
I’m okay with paying my taxes, don’t really care if it’s more or less as long as they are responsible with spending it.
I rate my town government B- and national government B+ when it comes to responsibility.
B- is like a 6 and a B+ is like a 7,5 right?
If you get the wrong idea about how good they actually do it’s not because you got my scale wrong, it’s because I spent 5 minutes thinking about how I feel they do.
No way. Nothing major is ever covered. Plus 5 minutes of the doctor’s attention isn’t going to keep me healthy.
What do they spend the money on instead?
My Take-Home in Germany is a little less than two thirds of my pay.
The difference is that I’m happy with it, because I get my moneys worth in return. Holy shit healthcare alone is just so goddamn cheap compared to what all my health issues would cost extra in the US.
Yes, rich assholes not paying their fair share is a problem over here too, but far less than in the US and honestly, for my personal happiness it’s far more important that I can see the positive impact my taxes have on me and in my community.
I think that’s the biggest difference, are taxes levied for mutual benefit or to funnel money to the mayors/governors/presidents daughters company and thus are a means to rob the populace? Over here it’s overwhelmingly for mutual benefit.
Health care, childcare, infrastructure (Bahn jokes aside), unemployment benefits, social programs, education…
Exactly! Me, I go to work, I take home basically half, one quarter is taxes that I will never see back because the roads are so so fixed but if I need healthcare I’m totally fucking screwed. First off even for regular checkups I have to pay extra cuz a continues 1/5th of my pay isn’t enough to cover my doctor’s vacation and the drug company’s CEO’s personal ball scrubbers. As soon as I get a Mayor thing happen they will raise my premiums to the company and the company will secretly start recording everything I do wrong so that they can fire me as soon as I make my first wrong action. Noe without a job and healthcare, the orange turd is fighting social security and free healthcare. Plus I’m brown enough to live in fear of getting an accidental deportation parking ticket. Here, you hit the wrong car and they can apparently blast your front door. How does ant of that even help me? I much rather put all my benefits in a savings account and then fly to Tijuana for the amputation or whatever.
First off even for regular checkups I have to pay extra cuz a continues 1/5th of my pay isn’t enough
That is so wild. The US has the most expensive system in the world and often not that great service in return and somehow so many are convinced that their broken system is so much better… I guess that’s partly explained by an also broken education system. That’s something that always has been broken as far as I can remember, but now it’ll get sooooo much worse under Trump.
Plus I’m brown enough to live in fear of getting an accidental deportation parking ticket. Here, you hit the wrong car and they can apparently blast your front door. How does any of that even help me?
Aaaaaand another thing that’s getting sooooo much worse under Trump. And all paid for by your taxes.
I’ll emphasize though, the problem isn’t taxes, it’s a broken political system where 0.01% of the population pay for 50% or more of political campaigning and the people have allowed their representatives to create a system of government that fucks them over for reasons that appeal to their basest instincts.
Some rich asshole isn’t taking half a quarter of your pay in taxes.
Some rich asshole is not paying his taxes and we have to pay more as a result.
That being said, 25% is comparatively low to other countries.
That looks like a pretty cheap subscription fee for a country ~25%.
Mine is closer to actually half, though we get healthcare and a half decent social safety net with ours.
I’ll die before retirement and I never use benefits. So its all a tax to me.
Never uses roads or currency like a champ
You’re ready to become a sovcit OP
Maybe if you used your benefits you’d live long enough to retire
Admittedly, a lot of taxes are misspent but a quarter of your income seems a bargain.
For example, I imagine getting to your jon would be really difficult without roads. Or a semi functional legal system that stops people from just robbing your business whenever they feel like it. Or a system that enforces contracts and property rights.
I’ve had a job where I didn’t pay taxes. It didn’t end well.
I agree with everything you’re saying, except my john is just down the hall…so when we’re going, we don’t need roads
A quarter that does not include healthcare or other benefits, which probably suck out another 20% of what they could have made if health coverage wasn’t tied to employment and has high co-pays and other costs.
They are now going to block our porn. Whatever are we to do with all the no time available to us and all the no money we have to spend?
Your taxes appear to be 15-20%, which isn’t too bad in the whole scheme of things.
Looks like a pretty low tax rate to me.
Its a lot of taxes. How does the orange turd get to pay no taxes?
Paying taxes is not a problem, but the wealthy not paying taxes is a problem.
My first thought too lol
Half? Where do you live? The people’s republic of Sweden?
Also, that doesn’t look like half.
I’m living the American dream.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 8 months ago
What is “Take Home”? I assume your net salary or at least that’s what I would call it?
+/- 25% of taxes isn’t that bad, how are the other taxes/benefit you get?
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Take home is Net pay. I guess some people confuse net with gross.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Well yeah people confuse net with cross, that happens all the time and it’s annoying, but take home is a new one for me