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> I would happily pay 80% taxes That's ridiculous. No government services costs that much. No insurance for any event costs that much. If you live in richest
by hal9000xp 9y ago
> I would happily pay 80% taxes
That's ridiculous. No government services costs that much. No insurance for any event costs that much.
If you live in richest country in the world and citizens pay 30% taxes and government can't provide free education and health care then it's something wrong with the government itself and artificially inflated prices on education and healthcare.
Instead of raising taxes, you need pop healthcare and education bubble first.
- adrianN 9y agoOr you use the taxes to transfer wealth from the richest to the poorest, for example by paying everyone a basic income.
- _acme 9y agoDenmark and Sweden's top marginal tax rate is around 60%, which doesn't include value added taxes of about 10%.
- hal9000xp 9y agoAnd that's why I left Sweden to the Netherlands because the Netherlands offers huge tax discount - 30% rulling. In other words, Sweden lost me as a software developer. And it looks like it's not only me how doesn't like high taxes in Sweden: https://www.wsj.com/articles/spotify-founders-blast-swedens-business-environment-in-open-letter-1460479684 https://www.wsj.com/articles/spotify-founders-blast-swedens-...
- aries1980 9y agoIn Hungary you pay 54% of it + 27% VAT.