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Have you ever cared how much tax you pay? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by manicdave@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It's always talked about in the media as if everyone cares, but I don't think I've ever heard a normal person complain.

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[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I pay quite a bit in Denmark, but used to live in the US.

I pay more taxes now (not THAT much more but definitely more). However I see what I get for my taxes here: healthcare, bicycle lanes, cheap and very good trains/metro/ferries/buses everywhere, etc., and sooo much support for people. It makes me proud to pay taxes here, even though of course I always want more in my pocket and I want more for my money.

In the US I hated the taxes because I paid more than rich people (as they pay nearly none) and I didn't feel like i got a lot from them.

No problem with taxes as a concept, but I hate how the US uses tax money

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

healthcare, bicycle lanes, cheap and very good trains/metro/ferries/buses everywhere

Danish healthcare is cheaper than US healthcare, and bicycles/public transit are also cheaper than the car centric US transportation infrastructure. If the US adopted socialized healthcare and sane transit, we'd pay less taxes not more.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

I agree, if the US also used their tax dollars as intelligently as the Danish government does as well.

Seems like a pipe dream, but I hope at least parts of the US become more modern in those ways in my lifetime