“B-b-but what if one day I get to be the billionaire cunt exploiting others for my personal profit? I don’t want to pay taxes when that happens, that’s so un-American and anti-Freedom!”
Seriously, paying taxes can be annoying, but considering that I get (mostly) free healthcare, cheap medicine, emergency services, public transit, public infrastructure, free education, and who knows what else, it suddenly sounds like a sweet deal.
I think they call that “communism” or something (in reality, having parents who lived in what was claimed to be communism, I now know that to be false).
Here in canada it costs about $150 for an ambulance if you’re a resident. $800 if you have third party insurance, and a grand if you’re not a Canadian citizen or if you’re a new Canadian citizen
America moment, here it’s the inverse.
Ambulance (€0)
Uber (€50 w/o dedicated healthcare)
This benefits rich and poor alike, and all that by the rich paying actual tax, together with a general wellbeing-focused society.
“B-b-but what if one day I get to be the billionaire cunt exploiting others for my personal profit? I don’t want to pay taxes when that happens, that’s so un-American and anti-Freedom!”
Seriously, paying taxes can be annoying, but considering that I get (mostly) free healthcare, cheap medicine, emergency services, public transit, public infrastructure, free education, and who knows what else, it suddenly sounds like a sweet deal.
Well yeah, but what if somebody else gets them too? /s
I think they call that “communism” or something (in reality, having parents who lived in what was claimed to be communism, I now know that to be false).
Here in canada it costs about $150 for an ambulance if you’re a resident. $800 if you have third party insurance, and a grand if you’re not a Canadian citizen or if you’re a new Canadian citizen
Edit: At least in Nova Scotia
$1000 Canadian is around 700 USD for Americans calling ambulances in the Great White North