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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by mschuster91 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:39PM (#35618080)
> All form of governments, no matter how small, tend to grow into huge socialist monsters (the usa is the largest employer in the world, second only to China, maybe).

The USA have 330 million citizens and 10 million people without valid residency, in total something around 340 million citizens. The public sector clocks in at 15%, which includes the military and USPS. That is, seriously, not much.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/public-servi...

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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by hartator on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @03:19PM (#35618706)
U.S. total public spending is around 40% of the GDP. [1]

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/FRA/JPN/...

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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by mschuster91 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:25AM (#35626447)
So what? It's not like that money is lost. It ends all back in the economy because people spend their wages.
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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by logicchains on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @07:48AM (#35626987)
Money is just paper. The _value_ is lost; if the government buys itself a banana, that's one less banana available to the people.
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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by hinkley on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @04:25PM (#35619546)
It's sort of like how when developers learn how much they cost the company per hour and they get mad about how they don't get to take more of that home.

Well, say you work at a company with 100 developers. That's who's making the stuff. Everybody else is there to make sure the stuff gets made. There's a manager for every 6-8 developers (13-17), and there's a couple managers for those managers. Add in HR and you're already up to about a 25% overhead and we haven't talked about equipment and buildings and customer management and advertising and litigation and taxes and so on and so forth.

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