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Re:Post-apocalyptic life in American health care by Wytwwww on Monday December 25, 2023 @07:37PM (#38767793)
> higher than most of the world* including most European

I'm not sure that's true in general. e.g. at around 300k the effective income tax rate in CA is ~34% (26% + 8.0% state) +5% (SS etc.) = 39%. That's quite low by European standards, if you go down to 150k the total is just 35%.

In Germany for instance you'd already be paying ~42% on 100k

Anyway, that wasn't my point at all, I'm just unsure how politically feasible it would be to accomplish this on the federal level.

> European Socialist Democracies

There is not a single country in Europe left which would describe itself as a "socialist" democracy (thankfully most of them collapsed around ~1990).

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Re:Post-apocalyptic life in American health care by BeefDinnerPurge on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @12:32PM (#38773799)
>Anyway, that wasn't my point at all, I'm just unsure how politically feasible it would be to accomplish this on the federal level.

Sure, every so often, someone publishes an article about how to balance the federal budget and it always comes down to neither being a republican nor a democrat. And that's why it won't happen. Compromise is dead.

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