05-05-2022, 02:56 PM
(05-05-2022, 12:34 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I guess the taxes thing could be a bit of a risk vs reward thing. It's like, well I saved money by living in the USA but I needed to ride in an ambulance once and that pretty much wiped out the difference.
I'll have to see if I can find the study, again, but a few years back I read an analysis that just looked at the return-on-investment the people got in several countries for their taxes. The tl;dr version was that by looking at it in this way, it eliminates the variation caused by tax rates and by doing so, the US was still well below our peer nations in services from our government per dollar spent in taxes.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
