Came here to say! Work as we know it, and for most of human history, was designed to enrich the owner class at the expense/literal exploitation of workers. That's its true function, and why it so rarely fulfills workers' basic needs. Where it does, it's bc of privilege or labour organizing.
For real. At $19 an hour, full time, I'm living with my parents because I can't possibly afford rent, food, gas, and phone/internet (which I need for work) The minimum wage here is $7.25. That's despicable
State is too greedy with taxes... all collected money goes for all possible useless bullshit and loyalists. Now our leaders invented ''environmental'' excuse to rise taxes and gave new ones but money is gone in thin air. What changed? Nothing, money drains even faster from pocket
No, it's not because of the state being 'greedy'. In the UK, the government revenue per capita is far higher than in the US. Yet in the UK, people on minimum wage pay no income tax at all. Globally speaking the US situation where you're taxed from the very first dollar you earn is unusual.
The right wing in the US uses this as a way to trick you into being in favour of small government, because it makes you think that if taxes rise, they have to rise for everyone. But no, other developed countries deliver better public services than the US without taxing the poorest.
Tax-free savings and investment limits in the US are also remarkably low by international standards. Instead of properly taxing the rich, the US taxes the income of the poor and the capital of the middle class, and you don't even get good public services in return.
But because the right wing has such a stranglehold on political debate, people look at their tax bill and say "taxes should be lower" instead of "taxes should be fairer".
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State is too greedy with taxes... all collected money goes for all possible useless bullshit and loyalists. Now our leaders invented ''environmental'' excuse to rise taxes and gave new ones but money is gone in thin air. What changed? Nothing, money drains even faster from pocket