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Re:Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplift... by lxmorj on Monday August 19, 2019 @12:39AM (#20734942)
Add average health care costs to taxes and tell me if we have low ‘taxes’ still.
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Re:Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplift... by AstralStorm on Monday August 19, 2019 @09:47AM (#20737691)
By EU standards, these are medium-low taxes still, by percentage. The difference is not in healthcare though, but in other social spending, esp. pensions. US healthcare is extremely expensive by percentage. It's a policy failure, not money failure.
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