Don_DickleI am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?
btsaxThe Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is legitimately the best in the world and other first world countries wish they treated disabled people as well as America
From my personal experience, Finland supports people with disabilities much better, in part because the entire system is better. There’s public transportation everywhere here for one thing.
I can also go back to university here because it’s free.
That’s not possible for someone with disabilities in the USA.
Finns pay up to 57% income taxes and a 25% VAT. They also don’t waste that money on a bloated military.
“up to 57%” is like saying American billionaires “can pay over 20%”.
Unless you’re extremely wealthy here you won’t get anywhere near that 57%.
IsoKieroOh, my bad, only a half million a year gets you into that tax bracket. My bad, you’re right, that is such a low amount.
It’s terrible that after that amount you get taxed on what you made over, rather than the whole thing.
the joke was that in the USA you can be multi millionaire+ wealthy and pay 0% tax
That is the actual joke here, agreed. If, and that’s a pretty damn big if, there was any sense on USA government they could just take our progressive steps and leave everything above 35% away from it and still have a crapload of budget to actually make their country great again.
But spending 100 million bucks per hour to demolish schools half way across the world is cool too I guess.