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You’re looking at it as tax on contracted income. Which is a consistent lens to use. I’m looking at it as a tax on direct labor. Which is also a consistent len
by sokoloff 3y ago
You’re looking at it as tax on contracted income. Which is a consistent lens to use.
I’m looking at it as a tax on direct labor. Which is also a consistent lens to use.
- vidarh 3y agoThat's fine, but in this context the comment I first replied to above talked about tax rates on salary not on labor. However, my initial claim that only a small portion of people in Europe approaches 50% holds for total tax wedge as well.
- yardstick 3y agoYou misread what I was saying. I’m talking about taxes that have a direct relationship to your income. If your income changes and the taxes paid change in proportion to your income change then that should be counted as taxed against your income. Doesn’t matter if you call it labor, wage, salary.
- vidarh 3y agoYou might have been talking about that, but that was not what I was talking about, nor what the person I replied to originally was talking about, and so it's not particularly relevant.