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I assume "Other purposes" is govt kickbacks to mining and gas companies ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mildly interesting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish we had this in Canada.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I wish we had it in New Zealand too. I get tired of people's hallucinations about tax.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I paid twice that in taxes here in the USA and I still don't have proper health insurance. If I got sick, I would be destitute.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (17 children)

This would be neat to see for the US

Health wouldn't be on there at all because fuck em

Defense would be spelled correctly and be so large that it would need to be on its own section, because the chart scale would distort things so badly that everything else would look like a sliver above zero

Education would be smaller than your immigration

Welfare, depending on the administration, would likely be some derogatory categorization for each group just to piss off their base

"other" would be the best biggest thing after Defense and provide no details, because it would be corporate subsidies and that would look bad

[โ€“] Wisi_eu 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You pay 20 000 $ of taxes????!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, from a salary of about 90k. However this is federal tax. We dont pay individual state taxes as well. Our sales tax is built into the price of goods. Our healthcare is also completely free.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Comparatively, in the US a $90k USD salary is about $10,415 in federal taxes.

However, my family healthcare is about $22k in premiums alone, for a high-deductible plan. This includes the employer-paid portion, as that is part of my total compensation package. Then there is the deductible ($5k) before the insurance starts paying out. And this is not including Medicare/SS taxes as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I love that we have this

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Transparency

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