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And now those middle class people have the same problems unless they inherited wealth, while expected to fund both the young, the old and the weak. Take GP's a
by BlargMcLarg 4y ago
And now those middle class people have the same problems unless they inherited wealth, while expected to fund both the young, the old and the weak.
Take GP's advice and go talk with some locals. Various countries with high taxes are watching their services fall apart. Taxing the middle class alone isn't the silver bullet you portay it as, and is only a small part of the entire system.
- rayiner 4y agoTaxing the middle class is a necessary condition of having a welfare state. The most remarkable difference between the American tax structure and those of European social democracies is that we have extremely low taxes on the middle and upper middle class. In the U.S. we have a lot of people complaining why we don't tax Peter Thiel to pay for universal healthcare, but that's not the reason we don't have universal healthcare. In the face of an aging population and diminishing workforce, taxing the middle class may not be enough. But I am talking about an antecedent question.