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[–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not in the US so any comparisons are pretty much worthless, but 30k/year sounds just ridiculous. Myself and my wife make slightly above average by local standards but if we'd need to cough up another 2k/month for insurance that just wouldn't happen. With mortage and other living expenses with kids there's practically nothing left from what we make. Sure, we could cut our expenses a bit, we're living pretty comfortably, but there's no way we could squeeze 2k/month out of our "non necessary expenses".

But, again not being in the US, that's taken care of via taxes. 30+% is a lot out of salary but at least I don't have to save for college fund nor worry about visit to hospital/doctor.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's the wild thing to me: we are taxed nearly as much but we don't get jack shit in return. I'd gladly pay even more taxes if it guaranteed things like health care and education.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, my household tax rate last year was ~32% after Federal, State, and Local. That's not counting the other taxes I paid on gas, or fees for my car, or property taxes. I would not be surprised if 50% of my income was taxes.

    Bezos paid like 0.9% I think. Fucking ridiculous.

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