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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by Brockenstein on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:32PM (#18242861)
Over in the U.S. it seems like people hate taxes because they don't want other people to get "their" money and in the meantime they're happy to watch the entire infrastructure of the country fall apart, as long as poor people are miserable, prisons are filled to the rafters and the military gets like half the government's budget (for freedom, support our troops, rah rah rah) it's all good.

It's infuriating. You like civilization? Pay some goddamn taxes. But alas.

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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by komali2 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:54PM (#18243100)
What boggles my mind is when I was helping my mom at a parent teacher conference, I engaged in a conversation with another parent who was complaining about the education tax. "I thought public school was supposed to be free!" she argued.
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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by epicide on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:24PM (#18243947)
Education being broken is a vicious cycle.
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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by jimmaswell on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:42PM (#18243601)
Taxes are utilized notoriously inefficiently in the US. It's not unreasonable to want them to be lowered and used more efficiently, or to even simply prefer having less services.
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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by simonbyrne on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:54PM (#18243727)
> Taxes are utilized notoriously inefficiently in the US.

I've wondered about this: is this "conventional wisdom", or are there actual cross-country comparison studies?

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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by jimmaswell on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:35PM (#18244035)
Healthcare spending per capita is a big one.
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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by mywittyname on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:37PM (#18244437)
Gov't spending in this sector is the only efficient form of spending happening.

Insurance companies and hospitals are being as inefficient and wasteful as possible because it makes them more money.

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