It feels like with every passing day our country breaks a bit more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire …https://twitter.com/BruceDawson0xB/status/1248331419765501952 …
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re 6: Lot's of USA taxes or quasi taxes are ~ flat rate (health care, property taxes). Makes it hard for people to take unpaid time off IMO because you have large constant costs.
I wouldn’t call property taxes flat rate. Health insurance sort of us. We don’t have VAT. I don’t see what people being able to take unpaid time off has to do with our country’s wellbeing.
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bad phrasing all over. let me try again. there are taxes you pay on purchase (VAT)/income, and those you always pay (property/healthcare here). i think the second type makes it hard for ppl not to have a stable income which is anti-entrepreneurship.
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You can live in a smaller house or in Texas which has high prop taxes but low property values. As for healthcare, if I weren’t mandated to pay health insurance, my spend would be <5% of what it has been. People will attack me for saying this but healthcare in USA is part of the
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