When I was studying at Copenhagen Business School in the early 2000s, I remember complaining with my fellow students about the high Danish taxes. All the blah blah about increased incentives to create if only the burden was lower. It’s embarrassing to think back upon.
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The personal mental benefit of being a well-to-do member of a basically functioning society where people aren’t forced to beg in public for medical care, slave in servitude for decades to pay for education, or rot behind bars in the world’s biggest prison population is immense.
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As in, it’s literally worth paying for! Even for purely selfish reasons of preserving your own humanity. To decrease the cognitive dissonance of thinking of yourself as a good person while living in and sustaining a sick society.
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The same thing goes for personal vs public transportion. I used to lament the high Danish taxes on cars, while taking a functioning grid of trains, buses, and subways for granted. Then I moved to the US, got my first car, and ohhh... maybe this isn’t better.
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But perhaps my personal anguish is so loud because I know - not just intellectually/statistically, but EMOTIONALLY - that the horror show that is American society for so many doesn’t need to be! That a country materially richer than Denmark has the potential to be so much better.
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The ultimate irony is that between Federal and California income taxes, I actually pay virtually the same in the US as I would in Denmark. 50.3% in the US vs 55.8% in Denmark. But I’m the dummy taking income vs capital gains
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Taxes are high in US
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For a few people, yes. I pay a combined 52.5% or so between federal and state income taxes. But nationally, the US collects only about ~half the cut of GDP of a country like Denmark.
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American society is definitely pro-sociopath.
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This is literally why we are moving to Netherlands this summer.
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hello random stranger, best of luck on your move! hit me up if you ever need help adapting — happy to pay some good karma forward :)
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Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
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