Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich

Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by hal9000xp on Monday June 12, 2017 @08:22AM (#14536680)

> I would happily pay 80% taxes

That's ridiculous. No government services costs that much. No insurance for any event costs that much.

If you live in richest country in the world and citizens pay 30% taxes and government can't provide free education and health care then it's something wrong with the government itself and artificially inflated prices on education and healthcare.

Instead of raising taxes, you need pop healthcare and education bubble first.

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Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by _acme on Monday June 12, 2017 @08:58AM (#14536972)

Denmark and Sweden's top marginal tax rate is around 60%, which doesn't include value added taxes of about 10%.

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Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by hal9000xp on Monday June 12, 2017 @10:56AM (#14537824)

And that's why I left Sweden to the Netherlands because the Netherlands offers huge tax discount - 30% rulling. In other words, Sweden lost me as a software developer.

And it looks like it's not only me how doesn't like high taxes in Sweden:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/spotify-founders-blast-swedens-...

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Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by adrianN on Monday June 12, 2017 @08:44AM (#14536836)

Or you use the taxes to transfer wealth from the richest to the poorest, for example by paying everyone a basic income.

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Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by aries1980 on Monday June 12, 2017 @10:41AM (#14537713)

In Hungary you pay 54% of it + 27% VAT.

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