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Don't forget to add employer contributions to health insurance in the US. That adds about 10% to the US rate (in as much as one can come up with a single figure
by EliRivers 5y ago
Don't forget to add employer contributions to health insurance in the US. That adds about 10% to the US rate (in as much as one can come up with a single figure for hundreds of millions of people).
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/04/08/us-workers-are-highly-taxed-when-you-count-health-premiums/ https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/04/08/us-workers-a...
- refurb 5y agoI did account for it and the tax rate is still lower. Public spending is about the same as private and public is 8% of GDP, so the US goes from 27% to 35%. Still significantly lower than Western Europe. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy-center/countries/united-states https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy...
- EliRivers 5y agoI did account for it I don't believe you. I think if you originally accounted for it, you would have known that your original value of 27% was misleading and you would have expanded on it. If you did account for it, you wouldn't only now be saying 35%. The alternative is to believe that you DID know, and you deliberately misled; I think that's not the case though. I don't think you're a deliberate liar; I think you've got an ego. Got one myself and sometimes I do the same thing. You have NOW accounted for it, yes.