• CheeseChief@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Wow, I feel that this is getting personal. All I’m saying is that if people were not taxed roughly 40% of their income, there would be less of a need to look to Government for solutions. The Government is highly inefficient at everything it does and misappropriates our tax dollars, they are not helping anyone but themselves.

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      11 months ago

      This is such an idiotic take. First of all almost no one is paying 40% Do you not understand marginal tax rates? A single person in NY earning 100k has an effective rate of 31%. They would have to be earning at least 350k to hit 40%.

      Government provision is the only efficient way to allocate common goods. You only see real inefficiency when a common good is privatised. Look at the absolute shit show that is the US health care system.

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        11 months ago

        @DrZoidbergYes comes out swinging with insults first. Isn’t the Healthcare system a victim of Governmental regulation?