Why do burgers dislike higher taxes? Lost of West EU countries with relative (but sometimes the same as certain states in the US) taxes.
My parents were never rich, they both got ill for working in the factories back then during the economic boom. They could only work 40-70% (government doctor concluded this) Soo, there wasnt a lot of money when growing up. But i still had my chances.
They got their rent subsidized My parents couldnt afford for me to go to football training. But because they earn less than xx.xx they only had to pay 10% and every year i could get 150 euros worth of sportsclothing from the government.
Because they earn less than xx.xx i got a computer + internet for 3 years + printer when i was 12 (highschool age). I got it again when i turned 15 and 17.
Then i became a real student.
Full health insurance is €101, but because im a student and earn less than xx.xx i get €78 subsidized. My uni is max 2k a year (government rules) but i get €550 a month subsidized to study and a free transport card. I don't have to pay it back, its all waived away when i graduate. If i want, i can borrow extra money for 0% interest rate and pay it back in 30 years.
Because i earn less than xx.xx my rent (which is €670) is subsidized. I get €377 a month.
Now for example if i would earn 10k more a year, i would only get €220 a month subsidized. The more i earn, the more the subsidizations diminish. Subsidizations end somewhere around 45-60k a year.
So even when i graduate, i still get some, but not all, things subsidized untill i get fully paid and can handle my own shit. I now earn around 25K with my parttime jobs, i still am studying.
Now lets look back at this. What if the government didnt help me? How would i end up now? If i were in the US i couldnt afford uni, or a place of my own. Whats left, crime? Endless life of living in poverty? My parents sure would be living in poverty.
I am 26 now, the government has helped me all the way untill now. All this cost a lot of money, do i mind paying some more taxes now? No not really.. others did that as well. To me, the only downside of this is filling in a lot of papers to keep proving you (or whoever is asking subsidizations) is not leeching off for free (like the government doctor actually confirming you are not able to work 100%).
>B-but l-leechers. Yes, we all have them (like you guys with their Neetbux). But the system is stable enough to handle those few that pass trough the cracks.
Elijah Phillips
Check your European privlege m8, this same system could not work on the US
Nathaniel Cook
>few that pass through the cracks >like half of big population Not a fan of taxes sir.
Cameron James
Because it's theft.
Jack Baker
Because freedom has no price you toothpaste faggot
Jayden Rogers
RARE mountnigger
Josiah Taylor
niggers
Brandon James
Freedom is relative Here in NL you can smoke weed everywhere In germany you can drive unlimited speeds on the Autobahn In the US you can own a gun
The US isnt more free than other western countries. They think they are more free because of propagenda since they are born, thinking that they are better than xyz because they are more free (grasping at straws and what else would you tell your country?)
Ayden Roberts
meanwhile you guys can get arrested for saying bad words or doing the Roman salute
Jayden Baker
Then why do both Australia and USA have better living standard than you? Both have lower taxes and Australia is one of the freest economies in the world
Grayson Johnson
If you lived in the US and were a poorfag you'd get:
CHIP, Medicare/Medicaid: absolutely free dental and healthcare for disabled people, poor children, and people who make less than the poverty limit which is around $15k/year.
Pell Grants: $5500/year to go to a university for 4 years if you're poor.
SNAP: $200/month for food.
Housing? I don't know about that though.
Ayden Long
There are lots of roads in the western US that have no speed limit, and there are states that let you smoke weed.
It's almost as if here in the US states have the FREEDOM to decide these things for themselves.
Easton Barnes
Google your facts. Norway is currently #1 with happyness, living standars, etc etc Netherlands is 3 or 4
And why am i talking to a nigger
Blake Flores
i'm all for sales tax and property tax, not for income tax because niggers and hoes dont pay income taxes with drugs and prostitution.
Josiah Perry
Because they're bad at math.
Jason Rodriguez
Oh lord one example.
There are enough examples in the US for people getting arrested because of tweeting stuff or having a certain argument in university.
>happyness, living standars Subjective. Americans make more money and have lower cost of living. I think that contributes more to happiness than anything.
Josiah Cook
only time you could be arrested for something on twitter is if you said you are killing the president. Even then you usually would not be arrested. If you disrupt a lecture you can be kicked out because its not public property.
Justin Cruz
This
Kayden Harris
You earm 18% more than us But work 21% more hours
Aka hourly wage is lower most of those researches on happiness, living standards etc are done by your univerisities.
Jayden Cooper
Because I prefer to spend my money, not trust somebody whom I will never know or even meet else to spend my money on my behalf.
Are all the Dutch this thick?
Cameron Wood
So youre already being robbed? Cause you already pay for it, we pay some (but not always more) but there is a bigger difference at the end.
Connor Phillips
Okay did some research about subsidized housing (we call it Section 8).
If you're a poorfag you only have to pay 30% of your income to live in Section 8 housing and the government pays the rest.
>Tenant Rent Payment = Monthly Income X 30%
Hey man, if niggers can get by in the US, you can too.
Kevin White
Because I don't want to give money I earned to another entity so that it can tell me how best to live my life.
Sebastian Myers
yeah why right
Xavier James
>bad words Not at all. People curse crude shit every day here, from the bad quality weed to telling the king he's a French bastard. >Roman salute Arrested for historical reasons and muh feelings.
Jacob Richardson
America is firstly a competitive society. Europe (or rather, the agglomeration of nation-states that compose Europe) is firstly a cooperative society. Outcomes for equality vary accordingly.
There isn't really a more detailed 'why' than that, because of course you find a lot of ideological conflict within each society's constituency. Plenty of burgers want eurotaxes too.
Eli Lopez
Once your country is 60% you will understand entirely.
Certain segments of society have zero desire or intention of ever paying back what the public purse invests in them.
Jaxon Bell
Because i'm above (very) average intelligence, stem mayor, why should i be paid the same as an average worker?
Netherlands average salary: 36k STEM (yes yes I know "STEM" includes some low paying fields, stop bitching) average salary: 40k
Why the fuck would anyone ever in netherlands study STEM? Why would you try to be above average if it gets you extra 4k/yr?
Nathan Miller
Whatever, but how come you didn't reply to my post here? You make it out to seem like there's no welfare/government assistance here but it's simply not the case.
The government and my state gave me $20,000 in grants/scholarships to go to a good university here and my family was poor and I had free dental and health growing up. We never struggled to get by.
Nathan Morales
I think US federal taxes are like our EU taxes.
Nobody want to give more money to the EU either,
Austin Sanchez
Only valid answer.
Jose Bell
Am I understanding you correctly, since we're already getting taxed, which is theft, we should let them tax us even more?
Leo Powell
Everything you say is true, fuck socialism, worst system ever. OP is a retard.
Evan Nelson
Because I don't want to be subsidized and I don't want to be taxed to help welfare fucks.
Brody Hughes
Yes, I am currently being robbed by the state and the fed twice a month.
Julian Fisher
Your argument falls to pieces the moment you even brought up your parents.
The moment they couldnt afford you they shouldve brought you up for adoption or never have a kid in the first place.
Thats the problem they had a child without having a plan A, B, and C so now the government has to pay for you.
Congrats your sob story is actually a story of 2 individuals having a child they could never afford.
Gavin Thompson
Because niggers don't work... so you would have Whites supporting Niggers.
Matthew Barnes
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100MGET Dolphin post
Carson Cook
>Why the fuck would anyone ever in netherlands study STEM? Why would you try to be above average if it gets you extra 4k/yr?
Because the jobs you can do with a STEM degree are far more interesting.
And although there are never enough people with a STEM degree, we do have a very big tech sector.
Jayden Peterson
>Thinks he's entitled to the work and property of others. >Literal nigger mentality Black Pete makes a lot more sense now.
Jaxson Carter
Most Western EU countries don't have to pay for defense, because we do that for them. So they can afford all the bullshit you want.
If you were in the US you would have the opportunity to afford Uni, and the opportunity to afford a place of your own.
If you cannot achieve these things, you are a scoundrel and should die of starvation.
Ryan Robinson
They are ROUGHLY analogous, yes, although because the EU is less confederated than the US is, national taxes are much more important for you guys. For instance, US state income taxes don't directly fund national security or anything related to foreign policy. Not to mention, some states (like mine, WAfriend here) do not tax income at all.
Zachary Miller
yeah and? why is it my responsibility to pay for your school?
"oh but I wasn't born with monies", well neither was I, and I live very well now
"oh but I wasn't born with intellects" so government should take money from smart people and give it to dumb people?
I wasn't born with good looks, some people are, maybe the government should force their girlfriends to sleep with me once a month?
I mean surely if govt cant redistribute money, then they can surely redistribute sex.
James Diaz
Nice strawman, Vojislav.
Daniel Reyes
Your parents had a fucking crumb they couldnt afford so now the government had to come in to save you. Just know you are a literal burden to hardworking taxpayer not receiving a subsidy.
Camden Murphy
>happiness, living standards Dude stop it. You probably live in a cramped apartment and ride a bike to work everyday. And the income Americans make is amplified because cost of living is lower. Comparing wages directly won't provide the full picture.
James Baker
Just a note. I wouldn't have to work a normal job at all if it wasn't for property taxes.
I am a farmer, I live in the middle of nowhere. I don't pay for water, as it's on a private well. I don't pay for electricity, as I've solar panels and a wind mill(Smaller one). I don't use much electric so it works out. I heat my home with a wood stove. I don't have air conditioning. I have single pane windows and a slate roof. This house was built by my ancestors.
I have a 15 acre vegetable garden, and I have 20 acres of pasture for cattle. Plan on getting hogs next year.
My nearest neighbor is 3 miles away. I don't have kids. I went to private school.
Why should I pay taxes, OP? Because of property tax I have to work a job in the city. Which is 30 miles away. I then have to buy insurance for my vehicle, have to register it, have to do all kinds of extra shit that I otherwise wouldn't have to do - all so I can afford to pay bullshit property tax.
Christopher Cooper
So i should bust my ass for 4-6 years in school, studying 10hrs+ days just so I can do a job that's: 1) "more interesting" 2) a lot more harder/stressful than an average job
Again, why on earth would anyone want to do that?
And why even go through university in the first place, why not just a get a job out of high school? You are losing 4-6 years of your life (in university) so you can get 4k euros a year more than a guy at the post office?
Joshua Morgan
I didn't agree to anything my government has done is this countries entire existence yet they want me to hand over money that I had to spend part of my life getting which I need to survive? The government doesn't represent me so why should I pay taxes?
Juan Martinez
>Why do burgers dislike higher taxes?
Because the American government cannot, and should not be trusted.
Owen Thompson
Education is an investment.
The money government spends on education leads to higher wages and thus higher tax earnings for the government.
In return, people with a degree shouldn't complain too much about the taxes they have to pay, they are basically paying back the cost of their education over their working life. In America former students have to pay a lot more to pay back those gigantic student loans.
Unfortunately my government now wants to put students in huge debt as well. I think people will eventually revolt against it and refuse to pay taxes.
Nolan Nelson
Can I live with you?
Bentley Harris
>let's just give an entity more power in stealing and arresting us, nothing will go wrong then
Owen Gomez
Nobody tells you to get into STEM.
But smart people generally like a challenging job over a boring one. I could never do some repetitive unskilled job.
Jeremiah Edwards
Can you work 16 hour days, mostly shoveling shit? Only day off is Sunday.
Jackson Hernandez
What happens if people don't pay their taxes? I assume some kind of fine, and if they don't pay that fine? Eventually men with guns, come and take them away and put them in a cage.
Is your subsidized life worth putting people in jail for not wanting to pay for it?
Carter Cooper
It's not a strawman at all, and my name's Marko.
If you think government should take money from people that have them, and give them to people who don't. Then the logical question is, why shouldn't the government take girlfriends from people that have them, and give them to people who don't?
It's not a "strawman" if your entire logic falls apart after i swap out the word "money" with the word "girlfriend"
Josiah Williams
I'd vote for a 100% income tax if it meant I didn't have to pay for anything.
I'd vote for a 100% sales tax if it meant I didn't have to work for anything.
Anthony Fisher
have you seen our government. budget? it all goes to the fucking military. meanwhile, other countries dont even have a military budget because the US already protects them.
this
Isaac Clark
Forgot to mention I'm a neet
Jose Anderson
Simple. The government is full of corruption, waste and fraud. What is so hard to understand about this?
Kayden Anderson
No guns or cages.
They will just repossess what is owed. No different from people who don't pay their mortgage or other loans.
Julian Sanders
...Can you at least drive a stick? All of our vehicles on the farm are manual transmission. Old beaters from the 70s and early 80s.
Owen Ortiz
The punishment for tax evasion can include jail time in the US. It's fucked.
Isaiah Flores
You have to understand that our biggest government corruption scandal in the last years was a minister buying a pair of sunglasses and writing it off as a business expense.
So many people here are quite naive when it comes to corruption in other countries.
Levi Flores
Subsidising education devalues degrees. Everyone here has a business or commerce degree (and no job), and law degrees are essentially useless.
Meanwhile tradies are making six figures tiling or being an electrician.
Nathaniel Gomez
Do you play water polo
Charles Williams
So, you're a big baby, your parents raised you with the help of government (paid by all of the citizens even the poor ones), then you go to the university and people pay so you go there, then you go to work and probably you join a union and you pay people to protect your job, then you get old and expect to get paid by the government cause you're old and can't work
Meanwhile the poor stays poor cause taxes, the middle class struggles cause high taxes and the rich stays rich cause they pay someone to transfer their money to tax heavens
Sounds like a plan Captcha related
Daniel Lee
Would that be tax fraud, or just failure to pay?
As long as you're honest you shouldn't go to jail. But if you try to steal from the government then fuck you.
Hunter Hernandez
So if the community gives nothign to me, but I pay into it, they have the right to take what is mine?
This farm was established prior to my state joining the union. So if I refuse to pay my property taxes, am I not right to defend my property and refuse entry to any thieves that think they own something they've never been a part of and never helped? Not a single thing built here was traversed across public roads. My private school was through my church, which had it's own private roads. By the time any fire trucks or police would get to my home, the robbers would be dead or shot, or my house would have burned to the ground before the firetrucks even leave their buildings.
Fuck off with your big brother bullshit and let me live my life in peace.
Bentley Fisher
Because of low taxes I can live in a neighborhood like this while the same money will buy me a cardboard box next to mehmets kebab shop
Low taxes are great as fuck
Fuck Europeans for thinking paying 70% in taxes is a-ok
Angel Perry
Yeah with fraud/criminal tax evasion -> prison cell with Jamal. Failure to pay is something else.
Jose Watson
>pay 10% and every year i could get 150 euros worth of sportsclothing
sounds like an awesome deal, user.
Nathan Hill
>You have to understand that our biggest government corruption scandal in the last years was a minister buying a pair of sunglasses and writing it off as a business expense.
Your government (as is ours) is inviting hundrets of thousands hostile sandniggers in our countries and provide EVERYTHING for them with our money so they get votes in return. How is that not a big scandal?
Christian Johnson
No, can't swim :(
Why should we prioritize making government wealthy?
Let's examine what happens on a smaller scale here: We have two people in a room A and B. I take $50 from A, I burn $25 (bureaucracy costs), and give the remaining $25 to B. And somehow, by statists logic, everyone is more wealthy.
Easton Torres
>WHY DOES A COUNTRY THAT WAS FOUNDED IN A REBELLION AGAINST EXCESSIVE TAXATION HATE TAXES?
Zachary Butler
Both my parents were doctors and they payed their taxes. I have my own software company and also pay my taxes.
So don't make assumptions.
>Meanwhile the poor stays poor cause taxes
No, becasue the poor can also get an education. Like my father who grew up poor becasue his father died at a young age.
Plus minimum wage isn't that bad here, and you pay very little taxes.
Carson Wilson
I really really hate this image >overweight parents >overweight kids >starbuck 1000kcal drink >apple >downy faces
everything that is wrong with the USA captured in 1 images, well at least they aren't niggers I guess
Leo Martinez
>Why should we prioritize making government wealthy?
So they can pay for the education of the next generation.
Henry Hall
Because people like bernie sanders are the ones spending it Bernie is horrible at math.
Asher Thompson
Most Americans are fucking retarded which is why this country will forever remain shit.
It's why we will never have universal health care or free public tuition.
It's why half of the country is in poverty.
The influence of money is just too powerful here and Americans are too stupid .
9 out of 10 don't even know what citizens united is, which is a large source of our problems.
Isaac Cox
Also Mr. toothpaste you clearly have only been on the recieeving side yet und thats why you don't have the full picture. You will hate it once you work and pay ~70% of your income in taxes if you include incometax, VAT. properttaxes, cartaxes etc. You will realize that even though you are paying other peoples pensions with those taxes you will never get yours paid since the whole thing is a ponzi scheme and your government already took as much debt as possible, which YOU and your children will have to pay. Which you probably won't even have, because the burden of taxes makes getting children very unattractive if you have some standards.
John Cruz
>Your government (as is ours) is inviting hundrets of thousands hostile sandniggers in our countries and provide EVERYTHING for them with our money so they get votes in return.
We have one of the toughest immigration policies in the EU.
Elijah Rodriguez
That's what people in flyover states call "culture".
Jason Baker
This.
Imho what ever welfare (in the form of foodstamps and maybe a cheaply made (i.e. a shipping container with lights and plumbimg) governmemt shenequioa recieves should be under the condition that she sends her kids to military schools, doesnt have more than 2 (if she doesnt already), and/or has any kids through "alternative methods" of reproduction - embryo selection , gene mods etc - that is specifically aimed at ensuring they have higher iqs so they wont end up as apes.
The tyrones should only recieve welfare if they are deemed salvagable. We can consript the ones fit for service and put the rest in pits/gulags. Maybe rehab if its worth it. Some people cant be saved.
Jonathan Walker
You're always free to leave. Heard Somalia has very low taxes.
Ethan Stewart
You literally have higher corporate tax rate than ANY European country, other than Malta (which has the same).
muh low taxes america meme needs to die. While i was working in switzerland my tax rate was (total federal+state): ~15% While i was working in california my tax rate was: almost 50%
Xavier Price
Why?
Because it implies that a bunch of bureaucrats know how to handle my money better than I do.
It allows those same bureaucrats to use my money however they feel fit, and not be held accountable
It forces me to rely on them for services I'd rather pay for myself and as such end up subservient
British people made us pay taxes and they fucking suck
Adrian Wright
Why can't we just be cooperative? School taught us that but in truth it was competition all along.
William Bell
>We have one of the toughest immigration policies in the EU.
Then why are the Netherlands only 85.6% white? And why does Amsterdam look like little Africa? Not saying other states in western EU are better, but you have to realize that is a fucking huge scandal and worse than some sunglasses and just because your local leftie newspaper doesn't call it a scandal doesn't mean it's not.
Andrew Robinson
It's because there was a period of american history where the federal government did jack shit for most people, and things went just fine.
The US doesn't have the history of interdependent responsibilities between the upper and lower classes that Europe does. Our founders cautioned us against relying too heavily on people in power to do the right thing. There is a tension bordering on violence between us and our politicians. Entitlement programs read like an attempt to trick us, so people on welfare game the shit out of welfare.
In the US we have a tradition of handling our own shit. Extended families, kind neighbors, and local leaders all worked together to maker certain that nobody fell too behind. In America you would have had a grandparent who bought you your computer because you needed one. A neighbor who was better off might have guided you through the process of going to university. The last few decades though we've been seeing rules and regulations the disincentivise these relationships. We're getting left up shit creek without a paddle.
Our culture is so different from Europe's that the European way of handling things (which seems to work fine in Europe) won't work here. We're so suspicious of government power that the idea of giving them 70% of our income feels wrong. Hell there are people here who believe a federal income tax is unconstitutional.
Brayden Perry
>Certain segments of society have zero desire or intention of ever paying back what the public purse invests in them.
The vast majority of entitlement spending is on homes with people with disabilities, elderly, working, etc.
I realize you dont leave mommy and daddy's gated community very often though.
Protip: come back when you get a job and are no longer a parasite
Jordan Turner
I think you're just with too many.
Small communities tend to look out for each other. But with 300 million it's everybody for himself.
I wish my country was smaller, 16 million is already way too much. 5 million is probably ideal.
Kevin Cooper
>Our culture is so different from Europe's that the European way of handling things (which seems to work fine in Europe) >which seems to work fine in Europe
This meme needs to die, it did nothing but damage.
Gavin Young
>Q: Why give money to the government? >A: So government can have more money.
I'm done here, honestly. Maybe they should spend some of that tax money teaching logic, critical thinking and philosophy. Just sayin.
Connor Robinson
Blacks White Americans are not against higher taxes when they know it goes to help other whites and harm blacks. If we created laws saying blacks are not allowed to use public services we''d have a tax rate of like 95% like we did in the 50s. Diversity=low taxes All white country=High taxes Know you know why globalists want diversity