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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I watched the video.  While this is certainly true for some families, it definitely would not be true for mine.  We would pay roughly $140,000 more in German taxes from my back of the napkin calculations.  And that's assuming we'd have the same income (unlikely).  While we'd certainly get some benefits that we don't get here, they would not be worth anything close to that.[/quote]

You do realize that the overwhelming majority of Americans don't make even remotely enough to have to pay $140k in taxes, let alone $140k "more."

Nobody has any sympathy for you or your tax situation.[/quote]

Well people who pay $140K in taxes — like me who paid $216K in taxes last year have no sympathy for takers like you.   You are of no interest or concern [/quote]

Lol I hope this is a troll, but regardless, you clearly have differing interests from the majority.  Hopefully the majority can get its act together and vote in its own interests instead of yours.[/quote]

Different poster but when the majority votes for the bureaucrats interests they are not serving their own interests either.  Don’t be daft, such a false choice.

In my own case, I have paid tens of millions of dollars in taxes BUT more importantly, I started a business (with no help from anyone, I literally started life in an orphanage) that has given hundreds of people great jobs and opportunities.  Rich people take more is such a terrible take.  [/quote]

I have no idea what you mean by the “bureaucrats’ interests.”  Ironically I am actually a [b]bureaucrat[/b] but I can’t be offended because I know that nobody ever voted for my interests ever.

But I think it is time to recognize that your interests as a rich business owner do not necessarily align with mine and that I should act accordingly.  You may have come from nothing and that’s wonderful but it doesn’t necessarily make your take on policy more insightful.  Not everybody wants to or needs to start a business to have a decent life.

I don’t think anybody can accuse Germany of being an environment hostile to businesses but they also manage to have [b]more equitable outcomes.  I want [/b][b]that[/b].  US policy is already dominated by business and it has been an unmitigated disaster.[/quote]

Saying the not so quiet part out loud.[/quote]

Wanting more equitable outcomes for the entire community is nothing to be ashamed of and to only whisper.[/quote]

No, fool, this is ‘Murica!  Literal camps of homeless people blocks from the White House, crumbling airports and bridges, schools that barely function, crappy health outcomes at an higher cost, are simply the price we must pay for FREDDOM!  This is what being the best feels like!  USA! USA!![/quote]

Crappy healthcare and homeless people so that some pharma exec can buy another multimillion dollar yacht, that's the sacrifice our political system has made.  [/quote]

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