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Re:U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166B by nswx on Saturday February 16, 2019 @05:06PM (#19181233)
Not generally. The reason the middle class pay higher taxes in Europe is mostly because of contributions to public welfare systems. Society level concerns are usually still to a large degree paid for by taxes on high incomes and businesses.
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Re:U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166B by tptacek on Sunday February 17, 2019 @02:16PM (#19186241)
No, the tax burden on the middle class in Germany is substantially higher than in the US after accounting for benefits, which, of course, tax policy analysts thought of doing long before we started arguing about it on HN.
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