Why Americans Hate Paying Taxes | The Problem with Jon Stewart
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- Americans hate paying taxes, and we feel like we don’t get a return on our investment. So where is our tax money going, and how is it being spent? In our newest episode, Jon takes a look at our very broken tax system and the value we get for our dollar.
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I would happily pay that 38% tax rate if we got free education, health care, daycare, and the like. People bitching and moaning about how we can't afford Universal Healthcare are out of their minds. Somehow, in their mind, they're going to end up paying more in taxes than they do on their insurance premiums, co-pays, prescriptions, ambulance trips, and hospital stays.
Nothing is free
Not to mention the 3rd or 4th rate infrastructure and government. The cities all smell like piss, and the suburbs are overrun by ugly strip malls full of fascists.
@@firstlast8258 Did you not read the “I would happily pay that 38% tax rate” line?
@@firstlast8258 except yo mama. See I can say stupid irrelevant things too.
They don't seem to realize that the amount of money they pay for all these private services can instead go into a pool to get better service and avoid most of their money going to executives.
I don't hate paying taxes..... I hate that I don't get what I was promised in return for them.
what were you promised?
Well stop electing Repugnicans. It’s really that simple.
@@VoodooV1 roads that dont have potholes the size of boulders, or bridges that aren't 50 years old and crumbling, nationwide broadband internet that we paid TelCos BILLIONS for and never got, social security that wont be paying out more than it brings in, i dunno.. maybe cops that dont shoot black people on sight?
@@VoodooV1 Yeah, you're right. Asking politicians to be honest are like asking rapists to respect the power of NO.
@TacticoolDeskJob I ask again. What were you promised? where is this contract? Specifics please!
I've been tracking my total expenditures for the last 7 years and when I factor in all of the things that taxes pay for in other first world countries, my annual "taxes" are between 42-48% of my income, depending on how much I end up spending on healthcare in any given year. I would MUCH rather pay 38% and be guaranteed I won't go into bankruptcy if I have a medical event that my insurance decides not to pay for (because that DOES happen in the US, scarily frequently)
But think of all the people you would put out of a job. All the insurance salesmen, insurance agents, middle management, executives, lobbyists, and others would all lose their job and be forced to get a different job that might actually help society. No! These jobs must be protected at all costs! Otherwise you hate the freedom and democracy soldiers are told that they die for but doesn't actually exist.
@@gogokowai That's why I wouldn't want to just move to a free health care plan, but do what has been proposed by some politicians and lower the age for getting Medicare/Medicade over time. So we might lower the entry age by a year for every year going forward. That way we end up covering more of the people who typically need the coverage (those at an older age) and we don't shut down the insurance companies and others overnight.
Of course the alternative would be to implement it in one fell swoop and take the pain of putting a lot of people out of work (only likely to happen with a lame duck President) but once they have found new work there's no more concern about losing all those jobs.
@@gogokowai In USA it is also legal to reduce "outlays", aka entitlement cost i.e. FICA, Medicaid, Medicare, by killing the recipients through denial of service or purposefully misinforming them. 4% of the globe killed 20% of Covid patients, with vaccines on hand for a reason. CDC told media "80% of Covid deaths were 65 and over" in the 1st wave aka Entitlement moochers. USA's lifespans are shortening for a reason, and it's to reduce outlays and increase profit. Morticians Lives Matter in America and their index was up 27.5% in Aug '21.
@@nanoflower1 Hospitals would be forced to heal instead of turning a profit. No denial of care would prevent some from killing the least among us, an action that they love doing.
They deny almost everything under the sun and this is the GOOD TIMELINE were in right now. Back in the day (before 2013) before Obamacare was passed. Health insurance companies could literally deny you health insurance IN GENERAL if you ever had a "prexisting condition" IE if you've ever gotten hurt before in your entire life. Millions of americans were not allowed to even have health insurance before that law was passed. And even then if this is the "good timeline" it doesnt make me optimistic for the future lmfao
As a Belgian, with our 37% tax rate, I can honestly say that if I'd had to go to the hospital JUST ONCE with an American pricetag and no healthcare, I would've been personally bankrupt.
Sure, it's a lot of taxes, but there's SO much stuff you never have to pay for. In the end, we don't lose more money than the average American, and we don't have to worry about being in debt for life, or worrying about going to a doctor because of the cost.
you're a slave that has little bargaining power
Americans make a lot of money over their lives only to go bankrupt when they eventually get sick.
Does your government force you to use third parties to pay taxes? Shits cute as fuck here in USA.
@@broboss9530, no. Taxes are paid directly to the government. I’m Belgian, too. Student debt does not exist here. School is free from age 2,5 until 12, meaning you don’t pay for books or school supplies either.
In secondary school you do pay for the books and supplies, that’s age 12 to 18. My second child has just turned 12, so now I have 2 to pay for, for the first time.
In higher education you pay an entrance fee, but that depends on your parent’s income, or your own if you are emancipated. It can be almost nothing. You can get assistance for the books and housing, too. My husbands parents were retired when he went to university and had a very low income. He paid almost nothing to get his university degree.
Something Stewart didn't mention. Medical expenses are the leading cause of bankruptcy here in America. 21% of all bankruptcies.
Student loans are had by more people but they rarely cause bankruptcy...because the lenders have legal protections that make dissolving student loan debt in bankruptcy practically impossible.
I've lived in America and Canada. Paid about the same in taxes but get way more for my taxes in Canada. Most Americans hate the government (hate giving them their money even more) because they've never experienced good governance.
Ditto. And isn't it ironic that the USA has bad government, since their whole schtick is a "better" union?
Maybe if they actually acted with unity on anything... Hahaha
Yes I very much find the USA thinking governments don't work funny. It's USA government that doesn't work. Plenty good governments in Europe Asia etc.
I honestly think America needs a completely restructure of their political system. It is just not working. Trump and Biden being elected out of 300 million people to run the country is evidence for that too.
@@lassehemmelig1895 the president means nothing in regards to taxes. It's the legislature passing +$1 Trillion 1000 page omnibus bills that are brought to the floor for the first time to discuss for an hour or two and then pass within a couple more hours, and the corrupt 3 letter agencies spending ridiculous amounts of tax payer dollars on garbage, along with those fun and cheap tax services lobbying for further complications to filing one's taxes.
So Joe Biden invented vaccines and Jon Stewart invented communism
In the US, taxes go toward subsidizing the rich.
^this
Exactly!
Yeap & just the way Democrats like it
@@nikgarcia2823 You misspelled Republicans. You're a fool if you think giving tax breaks to the corporations and the wealthy actually benefits the country.
Just the way the corporations who lobby those democrats like it. They also lobby Republicans, mind you. America: where the only thing you get to vote for is which puppet big corporations get to control. Is it a red elephant? Or a blue donkey? Doesn't matter, same people pulling the strings either way.
People don't hate taxes. They hate paying taxes and then repaying their student loans, driving through a pot hole, and haggling with their insurance company for an unexpected $2000 charge
If you don't hate paying taxes then you don't understand that you are violently being extorted for that money. You must pay them or DIE. That is unsettling, it's financial rape and everyone should be appalled.
This!
Then raise the taxes so they can cover all of that
@@cancerino666are you joking? The highest taxed states have some of the worst public services and infrastructure
@@Gmx92 Sounds like corruption is the problem there or are these the same states that promote LGBTQXYZRTVAGD+-?
I grew up in Sweden, have a bachelors degree. The only thing i had to pay for was my own upkeep(rent, food etc etc) which you take student loans for where a portion of that is completely free and the rest is part of the loan. The college and universities are essentially free. Healthcare is another big one, i never had to deal with outrageous costs for simple treatments. Certain treatments can get pricy if it's more for aesthetics.
I also lived in the US and saw the stark contrast, broke my wrist there, and saw how they wouldn't do anything in the ER unless i signed for that copay. I had a good insurance that covered most of the operation but still ended up paying around 3K. If i had done that in Sweden it would of been free...
I think a big problem with US politics is that it is so focused around individuals rather then functioning institutions you can trust. I was shocked when i saw political ads there. It felt more like putting on a show. Same for their media outlets. Some politicians try to demonize taxes whilst instead they should educate you to that its for the ultimate end to help society. Build infrastructure, standardize safety for foods, medication, worker holidays, treatments, and many many more things. If you look at the more successful taxed countries you can see their they have similar coverages for their citizens and it's not some obscure leftist social fantasy.
The problem, though, is that many Americans are brainwashed into believing that all of society is not worth helping. If you have programs to help the majority (race, religion, etc.) then the minorities get those too. Systemic and institutionalized oppression not only hurt the groups they are targeting, they hinder those who believe they are in a more-deserving majority. The propaganda is so ingrained in our everyday lives that most people never realize it.
the problem in America is the privatized system for our healthcare, banking, car insurance, prisons, etc. Companies don't like to lose money. They stifle innovation and any legislation which would improve our lives and threaten their bottom line. We are but pawns in a system designed to help the wealthy stay wealthy no matter what
Yes.
I'm an expat in Sweden and alive because I live here. I was maimed for life on the joib for an American Air carrier who fired me for being too disabled, 4 weeks before retirement, at 55, with no insurance and now a permanent pre-existing condition. American companies are allowed to kill you on the job or toss you aside at 55 with no insurance and a permanent disability. United Airlines said Karolinska Institute's MRIS and orthopedic rehab for my spondylosis had no efficacy and only a higher power could save me. Karolinska Institute is only a fraud in Chicago and in the eyes of UALSW, ABA, CBA, and AFA.
@dthomas9230 reading that made me cry.
I'm attending 2 year trade school and I'm in poverty.
Born and raised in the USA. Moved to France in 1987. Got a world class Masters Degree for $300/year intuition at a public university in Paris. Been living, working and paying taxes here ever since. The advantages of living in one of the most heavily taxed economies in the world far outweigh the disadvantages. Why? Social services, social services and more social services. Every day I thank my lucky stars that I don’t live, work and pay taxes in the USA, where the entire system is designed to have money trickle up to the ownership class. Those are the people who constantly bash the Liberals, but they are the architects of what Gore Vidal rightly described as Capitalism for the poor, Socialism for the rich.
Yes I find it fascinating how when comes to handouts for corporations etc it's easy.
But France has lower human development and per capita income than the United States.
@@kaavi1391 but they have a MUCH higher quality of life in France - all due to SOCIAL SERVICES. we get NOTHING for the taxes we pay in USA.
@@kaavi1391 And? Seems like if they're all way happier and better taken care of over there then per capita income isn't such a great metric to care about.
@@SinHurr I guess you ignored the human development rank of France and us , which is one the best indices to measure quality of life in a country .Also per capita income is definitely a very important metric to care about .
I've given 1/3 of my paycheck to the government for 30 years & my return on investment has been a couple wars, a crumbling infrastructure, a system of sustained poverty & low wages, Wall Street bailouts, corporate subsidies, militarized cops, & *zero* healthcare. The CARES Act was a taste of what the government _could_ do & it kept me alive through the pandemic.
But the second the people get a taste of the firehouse of money that is usually reserved for corporate subsidies and special tax breaks, inflation starts running rampant.
This despite the fact that the welfare for the rich that started in 2008 never went away.
In think i would rather have access to services than just a lump sum of money. Like healthcare, daycare, education, and unemployment. Maybe that is just me though.
@@crimsonstar108 Hmm its almost like... it has nothing to do with inflation and inflation is entirely because of corporate greed.
@@ghin780 totally true.... Oil is at 84.00 bucks per barrel now yet gasoline is 4.20- should be at 3.15 for that price of Crude oil.
@@csnide6702 Sign me up to nationalize the oil companies like [check's notes] a whole bunch of other countries have done.
Amazing. I've been making this argument for years. Americans are pissed off, stressed out and homicidal (in part) because we are soaked for taxes (while companies and the wealthy don't pay) and we get absolutely NOTHING for our investment. Well, nothing if you don't count our completely dysfunctional gridlocked government. Thanks, Jon. Keep the truth coming.
Did you watch the video?
@@dangal9366 I did. Do you have a point to make?
@@unquietriot8019 the video say you pay little to know taxes compared to other developed countries. You get what you pay for.
@@dangal9366 The correct form is "no" taxes and that's the problem. American WORKERS pay nearly 35% of their earnings in taxes and, for that, they get nothing. Corporations and the wealthy pay (if anything) more like 10-12% of some subset of their income in tax.
So yeah, I watched the video but I've also lived the travesty.
Next...?
One of my favorite hobbies in the world is listening to people I know who demand that their taxes be decreased (or at least never rise), while simultaneously complaining about their health insurance company, how bad the roads are, or how there are no good public transit options where they live. I'm genuinely curious what their hypothetical solutions to these problems are...
Hypothetically, they want to see what can be done with the money already being paid if it weren't being spent on useless crap like hand-painted oil portraits of the undersecretaries of departments we've never heard of. Which is a real thing, and very expensive. The problem is when you go through the tolls that are supposed to pay for your roads, and you know nothing has been fixed for a decade, the roads don't get plowed when it snows, bridges are destroyed every time it rains and not fixed... WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING? Put that money where it's supposed to be going, then talk to those same people and see what they say about taxes.
They have the solution ingrained in them: privatization. A business would surely do all of these things better than the government, especially if they wana make money!
I.e. maybe the problem with fires is not enough fire.
@@adde9506 ...okay, I just have to ask: what percentage of the US' approximately 6 trillion dollar budget do you think is being spent on oil paintings?
If they knew where the money goes and who actually gets the cuts l and not fall for BS from Republicans in things like better health care being "communism", they'd have corporations and the rich be the ones to pay for it. Hell I know taxes go into paying for the utilities but I can imagine the wealthy corporations getting huge profits, while their exploited workers get peanuts, should be the ones that should pay a higher tax while those jot well off shouldn't have to pay a higher tax than some billionaire CEO.
The solution is always freedom. Taxation is the antithesis of freedom. You cannot tax without ruining your society.
Decades of propaganda by the rich
When you're that rich it's surprisingly very easy to buy and control multiple media stations and basically control/spin the common narrative
The rich that are the ones that have to pay the most taxes want to tell the people that would benefit from taxes that they're bad.
@@mathias8627 LOL. No. Just no. LOL again
For real tho. When the poor has become so ignorant and brainwashed that they support giving the rich more free handouts while voting against themselves to do it then the corporations won.
This is what happens when money lobbying in politics is legal. They all work for their donors and that's both parties.
Being😮scared that you can’t afford insulin or inhalers or epipen is so sad. The greatest country in the world can not afford to give medical coverage and medicine to their citizens? But they spend millions on political campaigns funded by insurance companies and billions dollar corporations. It is disgusting.
So glad you're covering an economic topic like this. I was born in the UK and I find the entire concept of taxes inspiring, not galling. The idea that we put our money together to make life more livable for "the least of these" makes me almost excited to pay taxes. Here, that concept is completely foreign.
Part of it is just cultural difference (individualism and anti-tax) going back to the revolutionary war, but part of it is that the US system is so complex, convoluted, and huge amounts of corporate interests influencing how the money gets spent.
Yes, there is waste, but waste in the USA is only a little higher than elsewhere. The waste itself is a vastly overblown problem. The main issue isn't outright waste so much as it's that the laws are designed to aid corporations not regular people. Money is often spent efficiently, but in the wrong places. It's understandable you wouldn't trust the government as much with your money under those circumstances.
The US government (on all levels) actually on balance does a decent job with the money, but there are so many examples of corrupt practices to point to which make it harder to make that case. When there's no trust in our institutions, naturally there will be more pushback against taxes.
So for lefties like me that want to make the country easier to live in, part of the picture has to be getting money out of politics, including lobbying in Congress. It also means dealing with conflicts of interest like no longer allowing members of Congress to trade stocks. I don't see how the US improves as a country without these kinds of fundamental issues being addressed.
I can understand ur pov if u trust ur govt.
As someone who lives in the US (specifically CA) I dont trust my govt so i take any tax break i can legally get.
Then why is it that your PM just promised more tax cuts?
@@ArsenalOfFutbol you don't have to trust you government. French have one of the lowest trust in there government. But the people have to keep the government honest.
I think people in the USA are disengaged with government. Hence why they do whatever.
@@tephucquach7460 UK going to hell but plenty good people who want there tax spent on improving society.
Almost every other Western Country also
have a Value Added Tax (a Sales Tax
applied to every Financial transaction,
chiefly, between companies) - which is
deliberately left out of the equation of
any U. S. Corporate Income Tax comparison
to international rates. U. S. Corps already
only contribute 7% to the Total IRS Annual
intake. How much lower can our Country
afford to go?!
I moved to Canada 4 yr ago from New Jersey. It was the best decision I have ever made. The stress of missing work or getting sick gone. My relationship with my wife and family got better because no more panicking abt not making enough money incase of any emergencies.
This is so true. The biggest stressor for our family is the cost if emergencies, because they do happen. And when they do, the stress of dealing with an insurance company you've paid tens of thousands of dollars to over the past decade denying your first claim in 10 years over some BS fine print.
This is exactly what I've been trying to tell people for years!
US is so far behind!!!
The corruption in our healthcare, pharmaceuticals, insurance, oversized "defense budget, education industries, and the list goes on, keeps us from having nice things and a much better life. Jon, there is no way you can shine enough light or knowledge on this to be considered too much. A decent education alone would change the minds of a lot of opponents. Thanks!!
Shining a light on our "American Exceptionalism" AKA a soup of Capitalistic greed, incompetence and corruption. Living in U.S. for nearly 60 years (nearing SS benefit) is my ONLY reason for sticking around, and for it to be eaten up with sky high rents. USA, USA, USA . . . . a f'ing sad joke.
Lol you know nothing
@tradde11
Lol thanks, imitation is the best form of flattery.
"defense budget" Jon helps them out. Like the time he gave a literal neonazi an award at disney world.
@@johnd6389 You don't understand that you are the butt of the joke.
If taxes equaled the system working for us, instead of it being wasted would make us all feel better!
Good job on sucking up the lies of capitalists then puking them out as fact. I'll bet you personally "waste" a similar percentage of your income as you think government does.
Yeah, like how they spent welfare money on millionaires.
@@voodoophil I guess five trillion isn’t enough...???!
@@voodoophil yeah, what do you mean? Five trillion ain't enough?
Taxation is slavery. I have to work for free 2 - 3 months for the government before I keep my own money .
You also forgot how the IRS know exactly how much we owe, but decides to let us figure it out on our own, so that people who can't afford tax attorneys accidentally overpay.
That wasn't the IRSs decision lol it was voted down by republicans so ppl wouldn't have to pay the taxes they owe.
If you do not accidentally overpay, never lie about how much you owe! Tax files are either the best or the worst lie detector test ever made. If you are not rich with unsold stock values, how else do you think you can get away with underpay?
You list income, withholding, household size, and it gets calculated in the software. Then you get the results: Tax Bill or Tax Refund.
You clearly didn't understand his point@@adamkalb1
@@YoYo-gt5iqwent over your head
As a Scandi high taxes are great, i truly enjoyed my free education and the liveable wage for studying, as did my family, and when i got sick, it was really nice not to have to worry about doctor bills, plus alot of my medication was almost free, as in im getting a massive discount. Also our infrastructure is pretty great, roads, rails internet and so on. Free Market Socialism is great.
It’s almost as if pooling your money and resources together to make society better... makes society better.
Socialists always leave out the part where they threaten you with death unless you pool your resources together. Which is why it never makes society better and you're just left with a bunch of socialists lying to you repeatedly telling you how great things are because they have nothing but a lie to sell.
It's almost like people that do not contribute get better treatment than those that do.
@@imperialmotoring3789id take a few free loaders, which is actually very very few people in reality because most people do in fact want to contribute to society, over 60% of the population living paycheck to paycheck, id take a few free loaders over hundreds of billions of dollars spent on medication that is in the hundreds of percentages more expensive than in other countries. id take a few free loaders over not knowing if you will even be able to afford food next month because you got layed off while the company you worked for is boasting record profits.
youre made up world of free loaders somehow invalidating the fact that well planned welfare for the people is simply better than the current state of corporate welfare in america is just that. made up. now grow up and educate yourself
Careful, you will be called a socialist if you start talking about doing things together or pooling money.
@@cleatis79 Careful, you will be called a Trumper if you want to purchase health insurance instead of having the government force me to pay for you.
Hell, just not having the annual math exam that only exists to line H&R Block's pockets would be a massive improvement.
Don't forget the tax-filing companies, they lobby to keep it that way! In Sweden I just log in, maybe add a number or two, & then confirm our IRS calculated everything correctly. Takes 5 min to do at most.
As an employee in France / UK I don't have to do anything. It's all done between the employer and government. I just get a statement on the new tax year with a break down I can read. I don't have to do anything.
Weird fact: if you use H&R block and the like to file your taxes, they're immediately flagged by the government for audit. Use a real CPA or do it yourself.
@@adde9506 I never got audited when I used them, several years before I realized my taxes weren't complicated enough to pay someone for.
“They get a fuckbox?!” Lmao, dammit Jon I was drinking my coffee when you said that 😂
Just realizing this show exists?! Thank you for doing this Jon, love you
If I had such an education system, failing civil infraestructure, completely messed up health care, controversial police departments and so on, I'd hate to pay taxes too.
Not to mention endless wars being waged on our dime.
See… when you have republicans constantly cutting taxes those departments have to cut corners. Republicans intentionally make our system not work so they can privatize every service
@@OutlawAlaskan and government bailouts of the too-big-to-fail private banks.
@@OutlawAlaskan That's the whole point, a shameful share of the country's money just go to feed the war machine, and it has little to do with national security or "exporting freedom and democracy" and more with an upwards very vertical redistribution of wealth.
My friend is a teacher's aid at a k-12 school where 90% of the kids are on free lunch because of poverty. The school is falling apart and her union has had to threaten to strike just so that they could keep the school nurse and more then one janitor. I would reather my taxes be raised and people like my friend and her coworkers to better help students. Insted it goes to never ending wars and cops who seem to be hunting black people for sport at this fucking point!
My grandfather once said "taxes are the price we pay for cilivisation". Considering here in Canada, my son and I were saved when I had serious pregnancy complications, without paying a penny out of pocket, and in the US, we'd likely both be dead, I think I'm getting quite the bargain. And Canada doesn't even get all the perks our friends in Europe do, just because we're too influenced by our southern neighbours. If anything, we need to be *more* like our friends across the Pond.
If ANY of my taxes helped that? it was worth it. And those taxes helped me out, too.
I don't mind my money helping others survive if it helps me survive, too. Easier to thrive if you are surviving, rather than not. Right?
Like. And I WANT that money to go support under served communities. Of all stripes. It could save many others, too. So, I agree. We should be more like them, rather than the US. That system looks like a disaster
Exactly. USA keep us to get better... For price medicine, we do have way better price than the US.. but still far worse than european (wich most of their medicine are the same as us)
Hello. I'm American and I moved to Europe in 2017 when I was in my late 30s. I pay roughly the same percentage of income taxes that I paid when I lived in the US. The difference is that in Europe, those taxes provide me with excellent health insurance. I pay nothing when I visit the doctor and get medication. These taxes pay for education for my kids. Our roads are impeccable. Crime rate is ridiculously low.
Granted, our sales tax is 20%. But our goods are so much cheaper than in the US that we end up paying less for things like clothes, food, etc than we did in the US.
Why? Other countries don't waste so much money on the defense industry. Notice I say waste. Of course, the US "needs" to spend a lot on defense. But a LARGE proportion of that spending is waste.
You know defense spending is not the reason why we don't have such social services
I wonder how much of our hatred comes not from the amount we pay but from having to deal with the the forms and figuring out all the deductions and credits, refunds or payments. In Britain for example, it's all done through withholding and no modifiers so unless you're self employed you never deal with the paperwork and calculations directly.
It all gets sucked up with the help of lobbying. This was awesome Jon. Thanks for coming back
How about that time jon gave a neonazi an award? And still hasn't apologized for it.
@@clintholmes2061 🙄 I have no idea what an award has anything to do with millions of Americans not receiving sufficient health care. Your life must be amazing 👍🏼
@@ImZeroDayz "has anything to do with millions of Americans not receiving sufficient health care" It doesn't. I just think people should know about it.
"Your life must be amazing" I'm talking about a literal neonazi and you are going to be flippant? Are you trying to prove you are unserious?
@@ImZeroDayz "I have no idea what an award has anything to do with millions of Americans not receiving sufficient health care." Actually if you are wondering why the richest nation in the history of the world doesn't seem to have the money to give it's citizens health care you should look at the things it does seem to have money for... like arming literal neonazis with the help of people like jon.
@@ImZeroDayz "I have no idea what an award has anything to do with millions of Americans not receiving sufficient health care." That award is going to help support where your tax dollars are going instead of giving people health care... you are paying for bombs thanks in part to jons help.
In Norway we don't make an act to pay taxes, it just happens automatically (for most forms of income).
That's mostly how it works in the US too. It's just that you have to file a bunch of paperwork every year showing how much money you made, how much was automatically withheld to pay the taxes, how much taxes you actually ended up owing ( when considering forms of income that didn't automatically have withholding like investments or income from renal properties ), and either pay the extra if you had a lot of the latter, or get some back if you didn't.
I lived and worked in the United States most my life. Owned a very successful financial business in Los Angeles after I served in the Marine corps in Iraq and Afghanistan in the infantry.
The pandemic completely crushed my business, and it went under.
In a hail mary decision, I decided to make a move to Central Europe during the pandemic.
I moved, started my own company, and have been here for going on 4 years now.
I would never have said this before, but paying my taxes here is absolutely 100% worth it. And paying for my ZUS and getting free surgery, free treatments- it's absolutely baffling to me that we don't have this in the United States.
And what's even more hilarious, is I actually do pay less out of my income here than I did when I was in the United States.
Between federal taxes, state taxes, social security coming out of my check. I actually pay about 10% less here than I did in the United States, and I get far more out of my money.
My tax returns might not be as big, but when my girlfriend had a major emergency surgery recently we didn't have a $15,000 or $20,000 bill for that surgery floating over our heads. It was free. The only thing we had to pay for was some antibiotics after.
I was recently offered a very good job position back in the USA, if I would shut down my business here and move to do my work there in NY.
I turned that down flat. Because in all honesty, I don't think I will ever go back to the United States.
Our country's government treats us absolutely awful. It doesn't matter what side is in power, we get treated like worker dirt.
In EU they get double the amount of time off for national holidays. They get a third more sick leave, a third more vacation days. They get funeral leave, wedding leave, baby and child leave.
Their train systems are updated, improved constantly, and run efficiently city to city constantly.
They have e-government. Meaning taxes are all done in the same system as your medical, and your Visa paperwork, and your speeding ticket fines, and your banking, and everything else. So it's all streamlined and all extremely quick and easy to use.
The same social paradigms exist in a lot of ways, but people aren't as high strung because people aren't as worried about not making it tomorrow. Or that some emergency might crush their entire life...
And what is baffling to me more than anything, is the lack of infrastructure improvement in the US also. I went home after 4 years, recently, and everything was worse. Not better. The government had done literally zero to improve anybody's lives in half a decade and two different presidents.
The lack of e-government capabilities. The lack of focus on increasing and improving airline transportation and public transportation. And the severe lack of medical coverage. It's appalling.
Being an American. Seeing what we don't get that everybody else does.
We as Americans need to wake up.
Just drove from Georgia to British Columbia. Talk about crumbling infrastructure. Many of the roads I traveled were horrible; rough, potholes, many with all but non-existent marking. In contrast, most of Canada's roads were smooth as silk, even though they are subject to the same or worse weather as those in the US.
California gave my family free healthcare for just over two years, starting when I was laid off, and continuing through new employment due to them not wanting to take negative action during Covid.
Not having to worry about getting sick and going to the doctor or getting life sustaining medications was a major comfort, not having the stress over having to essentially gamble with my family’s lives.
Now that I’ve moved to New York, we’re back to “normal”, on company insurance, paying premiums, copays, and coinsurance with deductibles. My net income is down and I’m back to picking and choosing when to go to the doctor.
Why can’t we get decent healthcare? Heck, Roosevelt was pushing for it almost a century ago. Yet it’s still an overly complicated system that seems to generate money from keeping people sick, and that’s not right.
You were unhappy with the situation when your disposable income decreased but you expect other people to be happy with that outcome?
That's the fundamental problem. People expect the government to essentially give them a raise at other peoples' expense. "Why should I have to pay for my healthcare, or childcare, or education when YOU could? Wouldn't that be so much better... for me?"
@@BTrain-is8ch It would be better for *everyone* it make the risk and payment pools as broad as possible and leverage the US's massive purchasing power to finally get drugs and necessary medical supplies to our people near or at cost, instead of the hundreds of percent markups we see now.
The #2 country in the list of Healthcare spending per capita behind the US is Canada, and they only spend about half what we do to [checks notes] cover the entire citizenry.
@@SinHurr "It would be better for everyone it make the risk and payment pools as broad as possible"
It would be better for older and chronically ill people who would get the benefit of having their healthcare expenditures (which make up a huge percentage of total expenditures) spread across the rest of the population. If you are neither older nor chronically ill MfA or a program like it has a good chance of costing you more than what you're currently paying.
Healthcare spending in the US is not normally distributed so looking at per capita spending is misleading. The fact that per capita spending might decrease by some percentage does not imply that YOU will spend less.
There was an analysis performed on MfA and the authors acknowledged making assumptions so aggressive that they were unlikely to play out in reality and the total savings was 2 trillion dollars over ten years or in other terms 200 billion per year. Bernie Sanders even referenced the analysis in his own campaigning as evidence of MfA's effectiveness. 200 billion/year is nowhere near a 50% drop. MfA was mainly about cost redistribution not legitimate savings.
@@BTrain-is8ch The thing is that at some point, most people will become old and chronically ill, and usually people have old and chronically ill in their families, so you won't avoid it in the end. Also, young, healthy people might want to have kids and the price of giving birth is steep, as I have heard. The benefit is there even when you are young and healthy.
As for the savings, I haven't read that analysis, but the question is whether it dealt with prices of pharmaceuticals. One thing is accessibility, which MfA deals with, other thing is the price tag on medicine and care. Another thing that affects the savings is use of prevention instead of therapy. The reason why US healthcare costs so much is because it incentivises treatment instead of prevention. Because that yields higher profits. And just instituting a single payer system that focuses on prevention is not a magic wand that would erase decades of neglected healthcare. In the first ten or fifteen years, it comes without saying that a lot of people, who weren't treated before, would seek treatment as soon as they could afford it.
With major reforms, the horizon lies beyond way businesses' quarters, tenures of elected officials, and sometimes even individual generations of people. It can take thirty years for a reform of education or healthcare system to bring all the benefits. That doesn't mean that they are not worth it when they are devised with a sound plan, intent to bring benefit and popular support.
@@BTrain-is8ch Americans profit from killing other Americans. USA's media monopoly told their cable audiences of mostly over 65 yo that Covid was a hoax and vaccines were dangerous, and masks were an affront to freedom. 666,000 FICA recipients, aka Pensioners, refused vaccines and died because the media CEOs were facing a FICA payroll tax hike when CDC told them "80% of Covid deaths are 65 and over" aka on FICA. Slow walking a health crisis in order to reduce outlays boosted the morticians' index 27.5% aug '21. Killing other Americans is a profitable and tax deductible. Plus, the funerals increased church attendance.
As an expat visiting the US, I had a similar conversation with a tumpster last week. When I mentioned the differences of life in he EU to the US he called it socialism. My audible laughter didn’t go over well. When I told him my taxes paid for these things he wouldn’t believe it. As the conversation progressed, I had to say that his reaction seemed to be out of jealousy that Americans don’t have a fraction of the social benefits that other countries have. He had difficulty responding to that comment.
@Michael Rogers you mean just like the united states??? lol
The uk healthcare system is trash and I dont believe you talked to anyone.
@Michael Rogers The collective ownership of all property is communism, not socialism.
Socialism is the pooling of resources for the good of all, mostly the poorer ones. In most place this means tax goes back as services to the citizens.
It has nothing to do with 1 party state, as the allocation varies from ideology to another.(More in education? more in healthcare?, split 50-50?) (You might be thinking the Nazi, which had nothing to do with socialism, except for their name).
Like Universal healthcare, it doesn't mean the government owns the health assurance, it just governs it. Any insurance company can be part of it, if they follow the guidelines, or they can give better returns then the guarantied one.
Also, many places have double layered care, free ones anyone can go to, and a paying layer to get, usually, faster or private access.
Good for you Nancy. I never understood how anyone at least trying to help their fellow Americans can be misconstrued as Socialism . Taxes pay for roads, public education, infrastructure , sewage.
Improvements etc, is that also socialism or just making our society better. I' d hate to see what that trumpeter would say if they stopped putting tax money toward that. I guess they would just build another stadium or golf course with govt. Money
@@snowqueen1634
Actually government healthcare would be a form of communism as the government would control the means of production. The government would set the price, the quality of care, the amount of care, who can get care, what type of care. Again the left seem to only have surface level understanding of topics.
Thank you
Damn, Jon Stewart's back. Happy to see it.
I've always wondered how the stress of all this impacts Americans, the worry, the impacts on job performance, parenting performance etc. You'd think a true Capitalist country would of figured all this out unless the answer they found is that we're all just disposable.
Well, we have shorter life-spans now. The CDC has issued a nationwide announcement that all adults younger than 60 should get stress screenings. We are literally dying of stress.
Nah, don't have a kid out of wedlock, graduate HS and don't commit crime are the bare minimum to succeed. America is the land of opportunity-
I lost most of my 20s due to untreated hypothyroid. The prescriptions themselves are dirt cheap even without insurance, relatively speaking. The doctor appointments and regular blood work however, not so much.
Depression and lethargy made it hard to get a job, which made insurance nearly impossible after I was denied my state's poor people insurance because-and I fucking quote-"couldn't prove I didn't make any money."
Some years into my 30s now and, while I've gained back a bunch of weight during the Covid times, my thyroid and brain issues are much better taken care of and I'm overall pretty... well not happy but not thinking about putting a gun in my mouth 20 hours a day so that's a win.
> would of figured all this out
LOL "would've" is a contraction of the words "would have"
If I'm ill just go to hospital and leave. No bill. If im sick I get paid sick leave. If I want to take a holiday I get 30 days minimum a year plus national / bank holidays off.
Police on my street corner aren't armed thugs and they have to protect citizens in trouble. All the infrastructure is up-to-date. Rail is owned by the government and so is power.
I'm glad I moved to France. But USA has hard working people I'm sure you could achieve this. I just think people brainwashed to think there country is better?
The objection I always hear in my neck of the woods is, "Well I already have insurance through work. Why would I want crappy government provided insurance? (Or some other excuse)." My reply is always, "imagine how much more money you could ask for if your employer didn't have to pay for your insurance?" Usually the look on their face tells me they never took the time or braincells to think about it from that point of view and instead just parrot the talking points.
The problem is that employers get tax breaks to use healthcare as a way of compensation. It also creates a mobility trap. Hard to move if you will get bankrupt by healthcare costs between jobs.
When they screamed "there's no way we could pay for it" I'm like well how much does everybody else put into the insurance that you work for and get from your job now? Imagine that money going into a well-regulated and monitored system run by the government like all the rest of these countries that are ACTUALLY doing it, there'd be plenty of money left over to help people.
But it takes people actually wanting for it to succeed in order for it to happen and be well taken care of.
The unfortunate part is folks have been so programmed to hate their government they don't want to give it one thin dime and then they'll turn around and complain about conditions that are going on and the shortcomings that the government has because it's not properly funded in certain areas.
Unfortunately the money that the lobbyists put up in turn goes towards politicians direct success as opposed to the money that the people puts up would still have to go through the programs and then go to the politicians in their wages.
the other issue is that insurance means you need to adhere to specific doctors in a network. places with actual healthcare can go pretty much anywhere they want for treatment. The american government actually pays more per person yearly than the canadian government does that goes to healthcare for the coverage the government pays, because there is no government control on billing in hospitals therefore the rates the hospitals charge is much higher.
@@myronaustin I worked for the “government “ for 10 years. Trust me there is plenty of waste. The problem I see though is that individuals have zero bargaining power with insurance and the shady behind the scenes actors lobbying. I’m all for Bernie’s ripping the bandaid off and go Medicare for all, but there has to also be a conservative aspect as well. There needs to be a lot of medical barriers/bottlenecks removed to help cut prices. I’d like to see the feds create single payer so there is actually someone with power to pecker slap price gouging pharma.
I have an expensive Blue Shield plan provided by work, and our neighbor has traditional Medicare. We have identical access to the same award- winning University Medical center health system. Except my out of pocket costs are way higher, and she has greater access to referrals and specialists (I have to fight my health plan all the way and get months of delays).
Corporate America is terrified of M4A because it could make health care costs more reasonable. No more $2000 aspirin and $5000 for a non-critical care ambulance ride. No more administrators making 8+-figure bonuses/salaries. Admin costs for private insurance is about 20%, and about 4% for Medicare. That's what we're paying for.
The US is the only developed nation where people are regularly bankrupted by healthcare. Not to mention the unlimited hours arguing about referrals, specialists, billing, and a zillion predatory insurance rules. I know many people who have insurance but are afraid to use it, due to insane out of pocket costs.
M4A all the way. And, Canada.
To be honest it's more than that. In Germany if you make say 3000€ before taxes your get 2000€. This includes social security (which covers unemployment, healthcare and retirement) but your employer pays another 600€ on top for "his" half of social secuirty. But he doesn't give you a nice patriotic gift. You the employee earned this. So you don't pay 33% of what you make in taxes, it's over 45%.
I don't know how common this practice is in other countries but it does disguise in some way the real burden on people. Also people who make a good amount more than the average can opt out from social security. Strong shoulders should carry more, not here.
Good stuff to share, nice
Ohh this feels like og daily show!! Jon's delivery is really legendary, I've missed this
Daily show 2.0
Feels too much like OG Daily Show for me. It's ok, but we watched that 20 years ago already...
"it's amazing what you can pay for when you haven't been allowed to have an army"
great point. in addition to making the wealthy pay more taxes, we should also cut the defense budget by 10-20%, at least
It's insane that it could be 50% and we'd still be spending more than China
@@BizznessBox those middle-men could probably afford one, individually
@@BizznessBox Why would I build a jetpack out of such a soft metal with such a low melting point? Terrible idea.
I haven't checked the most recent numbers, but I belive the US has a higher defense budget than the next nine (!) _(deemed adversary)_ countries combined.
There's a lot of savings potential...
@@o.b.7217 More than the next ten countries on the list, eight of whom are _allied nations._
It should also be noted that the US police force receives more funding than the next country on the list's entire military.
I love these Jon Stewart segments... but they're too damn SHORT!
I live in Sweden and I was unemployed for a long time, lived off benefit, I felt really good about how much I've repaid after my life became more fortunate (hint, way more than I took out), I probably wouldn't in the US, since most is spent on the corrupt war machine.
Don't forget the horseshit corporate subsidies to keep their taxes as close to zero or as far below as possible!
I’ve forgotten how much I miss Jon Stewart!
Do you think jon stewart got some of your tax dollars to give a neonazi an award at disney world? I do.
@@clintholmes2061 The problem with… Leibowitz is he is always kvetching. 😂
@@clintholmes2061 You might as well be speaking chinese. Unfortunately, the majority of Americana are extremely politically slow. Everything that you and I know now will be more commonly known and accepted by the public in about 10 to 15 years, you know when everything has turned to shit even more.
As a european jon steward is one of the few americans i actually like
I've said this for ages - if you include the forced cost of healthcare/insurance & 0 transportation alternatives (among others), 90% of us are taxed HIGHER here than there by a LOT
Good to see John back in his groove I just wish he was on Netflix or Hulu. 🙁
or a real TV show.... streaming services suck
Agreed... I don't have Mouse TV+ and have no intention of doing so
Love you Jon. Thank you for your continued activism we need and appreciate Jon Stewart's voice.
Jon. Our "beloved " leaders are" exceptional " !
"It sounded like an ocean liner just came" 🤣
We love you Jon. ✌️
Dear AnaAce,
There are only two genders.
Yours Truly,
Devin McGroot
Isn't jon that guy that gave an award to a neonazi and never apologized for it?
It's always nice to hear how lucrative causing human suffering can be. The world's most cynical people must be those in charge of insurance companies.
They are.
Lol then leave
@@johnd6389 lol, another Scrooge. Sorry, I realize that's unkind to the empathetically challenged.
@@ChrisGuerra31
Lol I'm not unkind or unempathetic I just understand economics. Your ideas are trash and your policies are the problem. You wanna pay more for and get less quality coverage go to somewhere else.
The left really aren't known for hard data.
@@ChrisGuerra31
No nothing to say but emotional trash, thats what I thought
I missed you John Stewart! I missed you
Yep!
More of this please
"More Please" Yeah you're a socialist. You'll take your one small bowl of gruel and you'll like it!
Swede here 👋🏻 and if you actually pay more tax the more you earn here. If you earn more than 42 000 SEK, which is about $3700, per month then you pay 50% tax 😅.
But I am also glad to be paying taxes as my I never have to worry about my kids hospital, dental or school tuition bills. I just have to worry about everytjing else.
Here, the more money you make the less you pay in taxes.
For example, warren buffet, richest man on the planet, probably pays 8% in taxes. Some rich people get money instead of paying taxes. I as an average person pay around 30%. + another 7% in sales tax. (no idea where he got we pay 8% in taxes, that's just plain not true)
Congrulations. Your has just supported theft. And because that is a sin, you go to hell.
@@saliferousstudios he doesn't make his money from income
*45000 SEK
*50% on the money earned above that limit
@@saliferousstudios He referred to income tax proper. No VAT or property taxes, I think.
I spoke to a couple from Switzerland and folks from Iceland, and they all stated they were happy to pay taxes for the benefits they received; I.e. universal healthcare, childcare, maternity and paternity leave, and good roads and public transportation
It's really simple.
Little gets done in America unless it makes a rich person richer or blows something up.
Bring It Jon!!! I've been waiting for this episode Fore Ever!! Tell the People what's going on. Also, you may want to do a segment on real estate tax laws and outcomes....🤯
He is only citing federal tax rate. After everything is added up the US is fairly close to Europe but we have less social services to show for it
Truth. Bad news is Republican are terrible at math.
So let's get some more robust social services and cut out the greedy, vampiric middle-men.
GOOD QUESTION
There’s an american family living in Denmark who’s got an TH-cam channel “Travelling Young” where they take up various subjects such as taxpaying and gennerally living in another country. They once made a comparison between the danish system with a lot of taxes and the american system with very low taxes but expensive insurance. Interestingly enough the citizen got most out of the dollar earned by the danish tax-ridden system.
Except that we don’t earn our money in dollars but in kroner.
The problem with US taxes isn't the inner mechanisms of government, which actually work as good as anywhere else. It's the legislators and the administrations, who instruct government to help businesses and abandon people.
Yup. Corporations and their lobbyists. That is the real enemy. The people behind the curtain..
Taxation is financial rape. It's threatening people to pay or else they kill you, ultimately. Maybe the core axiom of using violence as as first principle corrupts everything from the ground up? NAHHH, it's those pesky admins!
I live in beautiful Canada and appreciate our healthcare system very much. I regularly cross the border to purchase gas and groceries because of the high cost of both north of the border. From what have witnessed, Americans have become very spoiled and entitled people. All Canadian products are consistently 30% higher than goods purchased in America. Most people living in Canada don’t own a five bedroom house with three cars in our driveway but can lay our heads down knowing we aren’t going bankrupt because of a medical emergency and there is a safety net for lower income citizens and for the elderly. You can call it socialism if you like, I call it care for everyone
Always love to see fellow canadians appreciating our system. Definitely has some flaws. I would fight tooth and nail myself to ensure we never end up with what they have south of the border. Cheers
I don’t think Stewart is funny, but he is a very smart guy who’s heart is in the right place, so he’s got my support.
“Scandi” here. I also love our system. I’m never afraid of ANY unforseen expense, because all the big ones, like health, education, it all just works more or less “free”
A question I've heard numerous times, both online and in person, from people outside the US, is "What are your tax dollars actually paying for?" I'd like an answer to this myself.
Wealthy people in the US do not pay taxes, they loan the government money instead. So besides not paying taxes, they are collect interest paid by those without tax breaks! That's what your tax dollars are paying for - a corrupted system that amounts to oligarchy.
The military. The last time I sat down and read the federal budget was 2010 and that year the IRS collected $600 billion in income tax, and we spent $660 billion just on the military. Yes, we actually spent more than 100% of our income tax on the military that year. The $600 billion or so that was spent on everything else that year was just put on the collective credit card.
The military complex? LUL You have like 10 carrier fleets around the world
Weapons and profits for weapon makers.
In WI our last Gov Walker made this big "tax cut" which amounted to a whopping $30 in my pocket. I'd GLADLY give it back to have better roads and bridges to drive on. Wow
Bottom line is in the US we will despise paying taxes when we feel those taxes don't have any benefit for The People. When our taxes help ensure rich people aquire more money and power and only that, we end up in a position where we have taxation without representation and that right there is why the country was founded and revolted against the British. Racism and our Civil War started the first income taxes in this country, our taxes are drenched in racism and corruption and that has been felt in America since that civil war by the poor and minorities.
Wow. Love that Jon is adding humor back into the show
I must have been watching a different clip than you. I didn't even come remotely close to even chuckling.
Their government actually helps their people whereas ours doesn't.
I'm from Germany. Don't believe that nonsense.
I'm from Germany. Don't believe that nonsense. Nothing worse than people taking a huge amount of your money and offering you help you didn't ask for.
@@JeDxDeVu Eeeeexample?
@@aarojpoll speak for yourself
I clearly was not talking about myself as to why the American public believes that tax money being given to the less fortunate it's freeloading
Among other things, I'm here for the theme song 🤘
Much better staging, and thank you so much for talking about what truly matters to 99% of the public!
Excellent.
We need more Jon.
Namaste,
Zachariah Lone Star Liberal
My favorite part is getting a correction on my tax return when I make a mistake... if you were already doing this shit, why did I have to painstakingly fill out and complete a damn dossier?
People with money never realize its coming from a place of privilege to say "I don't mind paying more in taxes."
I would like to see a “Where do I want my taxes to go” chart on the back of my income tax form when I fill out my taxes each year. And only if hey would listen.
More like a "Where lying politicians say my taxes go."
Ah, yes, the Corporate Oligarchy.
I still can't figure out where the 8% tax rate is coming from. That amount covers just our federal sales tax (not state), and there were several others listed to prove the point, which did not even cover all of them.
This teaser is so good it's unsatisfying.
I am so confused by taxes. I made 77k last year @ $24 an hour, and paid 19k in taxes, then the IRS hit me with a 1k additional charge and the state IRS hit me with $600 I had to pay almost 1k in fees hiring a tax expert but it still isn't settled even though he said it was a for sure an error on their part. I'm a truck driver, I make too much to get breaks by working shit tons of hours but I can't afford to pay someone else to handle my taxes. Just tax everyone the same % and give benefits to those that need it! Fuck
I missed this Jon Stewart.
I've spoken to people in Finland who were astounded at the concept that a government official might be corrupt. That could be part of it. Also, those people who will be in debt for the rest of their lives? They're not paying taxes. That's why the *average* tax rate in the USA is so low.
US is 8% blended between corporate, small business AND individuals. It's not the consumer tax rate like other countries. An individual tax rate in the US would be equivalent if not higher than the other countries mentioned
Almost every other Western Country also
have a Value Added Tax (a Sales Tax
applied to every Financial transaction,
chiefly, between companies) - which is
deliberately left out of the equation of
any U. S. Corporate Income Tax comparison
to international rates. U. S. Corps already
only contribute 7% to the Total IRS Annual
intake. How much lower can our Country
afford to go?!
Corporations pay 20 to 30 percent in taxes and thats not including the double taxes they have to pay. Corporations make up 5 percent of business, looks like they are paying more of their fair share than they make up. Learn how to read statistics.
@@johnd6389 I noticed that you've gone through multiple comments to defend the rich and corporations, and to insult people you disagree with. Why? If you just disagree on the information, then why not just present the correct info? Why the insults and condescension?
@@think32
Because ots not me defending anyone. This is how it works, just because you don't understand economics doesn't mean others should suffer.
@@johnd6389 Sorry, I don't follow you. There are many people suffering for many reasons, which have nothing to do with your erroneous assumptions of my understanding of economics.
On the bright side, at least you're predictable.
@@think32
Oh look the uneducated leftist is trying to make a moral argument. Lets be clear the are the bad guys. You are the bigots lumping people together based on some misunderstanding. If you don't like capitalism go to a sociist country, oh wait no one ever does that because those countries suck. Vote with your feet like so many do a year and stop complaining. You and your ideology are the problem.
Your ideas and policies harm more people. You do not know what you are talking about. You know how I know you don't understand economics, because one of my advanced degrees is in economics. Your policies are the problem.
As a Dane i grew up watching Americans tv shows and films, and i was so damn mad because i was born here in little Denmark, and not in the US.
Now as an adult i thank god everyday that i was born in Denmark and not America.
It’s such a shame I discovered this show right after my free Apple TV trial ended
Apple is terrible and so is jon. They deserve each other.
@@clintholmes2061 Jon is winning and you are losing.
@@tuckerbugeater I'm not the one giving awards to neonazis and giving tongue baths to war criminals. And that isn't "winning."
God damn - I'm using a few of your clips for my own "news" channel. Thank you ... and also (later, after you realize it ...) YOU'RE WELCOME!
8%? Not in the U.S. I live in. They take 22% of my paycheck. Almost everything I buy is taxed. and property taxes are over $5200.00 a year with an additional $1200.00 for road maintenance from the district. Then there is excise tax for the state. Then at the end of the year the government wants another $1500.00. Then there are fees you pay to renew your license, register and inspect your car and buy gas. I think there is something wrong with the math there. Apparently the wealthy not paying taxes is skewing the results.
2:20 that explains why McDonald's came out with the adult happy meal...
The first time I went to Hong Kong in 1994, I was able to get a beer in my Happy Meal at McDonalds.
Yeah from Sweden here, we have high taxes byt the problem is that the government is growing and needs more funding all the time so the quality of the systems are failing. We have a huge bureaucracy here... Waiting to get to meet a doctor (special doctor) can take months, even years. So yes, its a safer system, but its flaud.
I waited 18 months to get my allergies checked by a special clinic that could offer me treatment.
There is also a huge difference if you live in urban vs rural areas.
Just some inputs.
Trust me really isn't that bad.
All systems are flawed. All systems need improvement.
But if you have no system, then you need to start from scratch.
Americans pay TRILLIONS of dollars in the private healthcare bureaucracy. Except this system is FOR PROFIT.
It's insane.
As opposed to going bankrupt and having to use GoFundMe to pay for medical emergencies. . .🤔
See even if you have to "wait to see somebody" you're still ABLE to go see somebody and that's the problem.
If you working your butt off at a job and still not making enough money to pay for the deductible then it's a loss on both ends. You lose the income that still keeps your house going to a debt that has to keep your life going. People here are having to make that choice.
It's getting just as bad here in the US in regards to waiting for appointments. I was trying to find a rheumatologist and it took forever for me to find any accepting patients. Then the wait on most of those was 4+ months.
My uncle lost a foot and almost all of his kidney function because he didn't have insurance. And that was *a year after* a six-figure medical bill from an unrelated hospitalization (2 weeks before his employer insurance would have kicked in at the time, which surprise cost him his job because he was still in the 3 month probationary period).
So yeah having to wait a while to see an allergy specialist seems pretty trivial. Sign me the fuck up.
Oh keep in mind too the Scandanavian model doesnt really work. Norway relies heavily on Oil money to an extent that its basically the Kuwait of Europe, and Denmark has low business regulation.
"It;s amazing what you can pay for when you haven't been allowed to have an army"
😂
I don't mind paying my taxes I do mind paying my taxes and paying for the rich too!
This show is so fascinating to a stiff ol' Brit like me . The insight in to the way America works is a real education.
"But we have the biggest military!" Doesn't really help the general public day to day. I'd not complain if we actually had a say where the money is spent. Military contractors that are years behind and still getting paid should be cut off.
I wish i could like this more than once. All day really. Like all over the place and six ways from sunday. Like this!!!
I agree, and so liking your comment was a lil satisfying.
And will each 'engagement' helping push this out to more ppl, this is my tiny way of helping others get to like it (for me) too. 😁
@@crystalhazer7246 back at you
8% average means, 0-0.1% top earners and 20% everyone else
1:14 yeaaah, I like paying taxes... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣