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I understand that you once we consider US health insurance payments by employers and employees to be a tax (in many EU states, it is explicitly a tax), the US d
by EliRivers 7y ago
I understand that you once we consider US health insurance payments by employers and employees to be a tax (in many EU states, it is explicitly a tax), the US does actually have a comparably high tax rate to many EU countries with that significantly higher mobility.
Which might suggest that the high tax rate isn't inherently linked to upward mobility, or at least that it's much more complicated; that taxing high-earners isn't inherently anti-mobility.
- mises 7y agoAmericans don't consider a large, essential expenditure to he a tax because it's not. Food and rent are not taxes either.
- EliRivers 7y agoYou've missed the point and are addressing some other topic entirely; I suspect because you just can't help indulging your pet obsessions on economics and politics. I suppose the clue is in your name.