Re:Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
by lhorie on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:04PM
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But earning more means paying more taxes. If the tax rates are comparable, then your argument entails that the US government gets even more tax revenue than other countries per capita, so it makes even less sense that it then presumably spends those tax dollars on things that are not related to healthcare, whereas countries like Canada and UK do consider healthcare one of their priorities in their budgets, while still maintaining things like military operations and space programs.
Discussions about other causes for US taxes to be so high can get very political very quick because the myriad tax deductions available to the asset owning class, as well as the unaccounted for defined benefit / retiree healthcare debt that US governments have at all levels, and then you can get into military spending and so on and so forth.