Post #2636225
2025-05-28 20:14 UTC
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@GeraintLlanfrancheta@hachyderm.io 2025-05-28 21:05
@nafmo@social.vivaldi.net @dirtyoldtown@mefi.social @lachralle@social.vivaldi.net exactly
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@Njord@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-05-28 22:35
@nafmo@social.vivaldi.net @dirtyoldtown@mefi.social @lachralle@social.vivaldi.net To be fair, Americans pay taxes, too ( and it's often a lot closer to European rates than you'd think), but all of that money is redistributed to oligarchs. Us taxes absolutely are wealth redistribution, but it's primarily from the middle class to the ultra wealthy.
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@BenAveling@mastodon.world 2025-05-28 23:10
@nafmo@social.vivaldi.net @lachralle@social.vivaldi.net @dirtyoldtown@mefi.social I love paying taxes. Best investment going.
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@Ulan_KA@social.tchncs.de 2025-05-28 23:18
@nafmo@social.vivaldi.net @dirtyoldtown@mefi.social @lachralle@social.vivaldi.net Paying taxes is cool when those taxes are used reasonable by the country. But then food poisoning is a very rare incident in Germanys hospitality industry, especially in food courts in malls. There are strict and enforced rules concerning hygiene and products. If food poisoning happens its origins and reasons are researched by the authorities and consequences happen. A shop owner in a mall might quite likely lose his lease as such incidents will threaten business for all shops.
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@kommaKucken@ruhr.social 2025-05-29 07:15
@nafmo@social.vivaldi.net @dirtyoldtown@mefi.social @lachralle@social.vivaldi.net You’re right about taxes! Medical treatment in Germany, however, is free not because of taxes. It’s because health insurance is mandatory for most of the population, and not run by private for-profit companies but on a solidarity principle. All of us working people have to pay a substantial part of our income into it. No choice. And that’s a good thing. One car accident or cancer diagnosis could ruin one otherwise. No healthy community can want that.