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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by elpocko on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:34PM (#44830671)
In Germany only 40+% of your income goes to taxes and social security. Plus another meager ~20% on most things you buy. Plus a small tax on many things that are supposedly bad for you, like ~70% on cigarettes. Death is taxed at a discount, only 15-40% depending on how rich you were.

"Free" healthcare though. It's a bargain!

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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by WalterBright on Thursday August 07, 2025 @10:10PM (#44832696)
"Free" healthcare always turns out to be the most expensive healthcare.
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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by stouset on Thursday August 07, 2025 @10:32PM (#44832805)
This take is wildly out of sync with the reality that the U.S., as one of the few developed nations without free healthcare, pays more for their healthcare than all of them while having worse than average outcomes.

The worst healthcare is in reality American healthcare. We pay through the nose for the privilege of getting terrible results.

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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by _zoltan_ on Thursday August 07, 2025 @10:41PM (#44832852)
Switzerland has almost the same system as the US, and it works - when my wife needed an MRI, she got referred at around 11am by a specialist, for a call around 1pm to see if she's available that afternoon. She wasn't so they agreed on the next day.

Is it expensive? Yes. Does it work? Absolutely.

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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by WalterBright on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:07AM (#44833634)
I received a CAT scan a couple years ago, about 4 hours after I wandered into urgent care. Before they stuffed me through the toroid, I asked the operator to set the dials to 1988 so I could advise my former self to buy MSFT with everything I had.

The bill was quite a whopper, though Obamacare paid most of it. Of course, my Obamacare premiums are about 4x what they were before Obamacare.

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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by vjvjvjvjghv on Thursday August 07, 2025 @10:30PM (#44832799)
I call BS on this statement. And German healthcare isn’t even free.
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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by WalterBright on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:09AM (#44833648)
Of course. And historically, US health care costs rose at about the rate of inflation until the late 1960s, where the curve tilted strongly upwards at a much higher rate, and continues today.

What happened in the late 1960s? The advent of "free" healthcare!

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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by vjvjvjvjghv on Friday August 08, 2025 @02:59AM (#44834294)
Which free health care caused US healthcare to get so expensive?
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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by WalterBright on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:12PM (#44838694)
Free healthcare was part of LBJ's "Great Society".
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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by vjvjvjvjghv on Friday August 08, 2025 @06:46PM (#44842475)
Did it happen?
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