Only 35% and you get complete 100% health care with zero deductible for your entire family? And you can also put your entire family through four years of college for that, too? And you're guaranteed at least two weeks of paid vacation? Wow.
If I saved 5% of my income and invested it wisely, it wouldn't be a stretch pay for my theorhetical kids college.. I know my parents did it. I have 2 weeks paid vacation and my medical deductible, including a surgery I had last year ran me less than 2.5% of my total income. Including my additional tax free retirement savings (also could have tax free college savings if one of my boys breaks through the a rain coat) I would say my total after expenditures including taxes right now are under 30% of my income. Remember in sweden, besides the 60% income tax, there is a 25% built in sales tax as well. Good thing they have one of the lowest GDP's of any of the origional EU countries.
But if you are, great. You're obviously in a much more socialist environment than most Americans.
No its all just decent life planning and not expecting the Goverment to take care of me.
...And why would you want to pay a little extra for other Americans? I guess you'd have to ask that young mother who just lost the father of her kids to a drunk driver. Or ask that elderly couple that just got flooded out of their home in Lewis County or Grays Harbor County. Or maybe that guy with a family that just lost his job of 15 years because it was shipped offshore and his child was recently diagnosed with cancer. Ask them why they didn't have their [censored] together
Or you can continue to be an "it's all about me" kinda guy. You can have your country as a collection of individuals, or you can have America as a country of individuals cooperatively creating a civilized society. ..
Oh yeah your programs will definately create a civilized society..
Fema takes care of flood victims.. And while the other cases you can call tear jerkers. The single mother will be taken care of (atleast in my state) The Oregon health plan and myriad of other social programs. As for the other ones, as for the other ones it sounds like he has a work ethic and will be back on his feet soon.
Bolagna. A better idea would be to put a salary cap on the CEOs of those insurance companies and pharmaceuticals. But consider if you had a single-payer system there wouldn't be insurance costs to rise because of lawsuits. I've had socialized health care for 26 years and pay less annually to insure my entire family than many people pay monthy.
How much did you pay in taxes for your socialized medicine just out of curiosity?
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