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Re:An F-35 Pilot Explains Why the Jet's Bad Press Misses the... by EliRivers on Thursday June 03, 2021 @04:09AM (#27378438)
Don't forget to add employer contributions to health insurance in the US. That adds about 10% to the US rate (in as much as one can come up with a single figure for hundreds of millions of people).

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/04/08/us-workers-a...

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Re:An F-35 Pilot Explains Why the Jet's Bad Press Misses the... by refurb on Thursday June 03, 2021 @05:56AM (#27379056)
I did account for it and the tax rate is still lower. Public spending is about the same as private and public is 8% of GDP, so the US goes from 27% to 35%. Still significantly lower than Western Europe.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy...

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Re:An F-35 Pilot Explains Why the Jet's Bad Press Misses the... by EliRivers on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:12AM (#27382521)
I did account for it

I don't believe you. I think if you originally accounted for it, you would have known that your original value of 27% was misleading and you would have expanded on it.

If you did account for it, you wouldn't only now be saying 35%.

The alternative is to believe that you DID know, and you deliberately misled; I think that's not the case though. I don't think you're a deliberate liar; I think you've got an ego. Got one myself and sometimes I do the same thing.

You have NOW accounted for it, yes.

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