I don’t know who needs to know this but my take home pay looks like some bullshit. What rich asshole is taking half of my pay that goes to “taxes”?
That looks like a pretty cheap subscription fee for a country ~25%.
Mine is closer to actually half, though we get healthcare and a half decent social safety net with ours.
Happy to pay it because I know I’d not be where I am now without the stuff taxes pay for
I’ll die before retirement and I never use benefits. So its all a tax to me.
Never uses roads or currency like a champ
You’re ready to become a sovcit OP
Maybe if you used your benefits you’d live long enough to retire
Extremely unlikely. Plus living long enough to be bed bound in a clinic because you literally can’t work is miserable as an answer.
LOL, with things the way they’re going, not interested.
We’ll see how long my health lasts then I’ll have a think.
Looks like a pretty low tax rate to me.
Edit: welp, not that low. Mine looks lower. Weird; I’m in Quebec and I thought our tax rates were pretty high.
Its a lot of taxes. How does the orange turd get to pay no taxes?
Paying taxes is not a problem. The wealthy not paying taxes is a problem.
And taxes getting wasted on awful things while neglecting incredibly vital things I would say is a huge problem. If our taxes were spent semi sanely they’d be a lot easier to pay
I wish I could fund NPR with all my taxes…add a little note…all for NPR please.
That’s a known coping strategy (1). “My broken leg isn’t a problem, the problem is that other’s legs aren’t broken”.
My first thought too lol
Look again, only a quarter is actually taxes. I pay 50 percent between provincial and federal tax here in Ontario, and I feel great about it because I hate money.
They are now going to block our porn. Whatever are we to do with all the no time available to us and all the no money we have to spend?
Admittedly, a lot of taxes are misspent but a quarter of your income seems a bargain.
For example, I imagine getting to your jon would be really difficult without roads. Or a semi functional legal system that stops people from just robbing your business whenever they feel like it. Or a system that enforces contracts and property rights.
I’ve had a job where I didn’t pay taxes. It didn’t end well.
I agree with everything you’re saying, except my john is just down the hall…so when we’re going, we don’t need roads
A quarter that does not include healthcare or other benefits, which probably suck out another 20% of what they could have made if health coverage wasn’t tied to employment and has high co-pays and other costs.
Your taxes appear to be 15-20%, which isn’t too bad in the whole scheme of things.
Looks like at least 25% to me
Oh crap, you are right.
It’s all good, we can still be friends
Half? Where do you live? The people’s republic of Sweden?
Also, that doesn’t look like half.
I’m living the American dream.
What is “Take Home”? I assume your net salary or at least that’s what I would call it?
+/- 25% of taxes isn’t that bad, how are the other taxes/benefit you get?
Take home is Net pay. I guess some people confuse net with gross.
Well yeah people confuse net with cross, that happens all the time and it’s annoying, but take home is a new one for me
Do you get value for your money in your country?
I’m okay with paying my taxes, don’t really care if it’s more or less as long as they are responsible with spending it.
I rate my town government B- and national government B+ when it comes to responsibility.
B- is like a 6 out of 10 and a B+ is like a 7,5 out of 10 right?
If you get the wrong idea about how good they actually do it’s not because you got my scale wrong, it’s because I spent 5 minutes thinking about how I feel they do.
I just don’t know what B- and B+ mean besides that it is a scoring, but is it 26 out of 27 or is it something else, I truly do not know
No way. Nothing major is ever covered. Plus 5 minutes of the doctor’s attention isn’t going to keep me healthy.
What do they spend the money on instead?
Bunker busters. And police gear.
Some rich asshole isn’t taking
halfa quarter of your pay in taxes.Some rich asshole is not paying his taxes and we have to pay more as a result.
That being said, 25% is comparatively low to other countries.
