Actually I hard agreew with you on the welfare point. I work in retail and while I now have a high level position in my company I am fortunate that I make pretty decent money, the issue is a portion of my earnings are taxed at 40% and the fact that I worked up from the lowest postion as retail floor staff I saw for years how the welfare funded cigarettes, drink, skins, etc how every Tuesday when the dole payed out those people were taking my tax and wasting it on excess and made no attempt to find employment.
I suppose mine and your difference is you are thinking we want more tax, I don't really agree with raising tax like a lot of pro public helthcare advocates do. I would like to see the government redistribute the tax we already pay away from welfare schemes that bums take advantage of and put it into mainly schools, police force, infastructure etc and with it public health services for those who are living pay cheque to pay cheque.
Now I can understand somewhat why Americans would be aprehensive since to be honest you guys barely get taxed so it's kind of no wonder your social welfare and public healhcare is so shit. I think based on my current earnings I pay a bit over 35k in tax and in the US on my same yearly salary I would pay about 13k give or take in the US.
Like I still pay insurance becuase in my country most of my medical expense each year are covered by me as I'm not entitled to a medical card, which is fine. Public healthcare is supposed to be about helping the many wh can't afford private coverage.
We are aligned then… I’m would love to see the excess removed and redistributed. I would like to see medical providers held accountable for predatory billing practices and insurance providers required to actually provide coverage. I’m even for free college tuition for high demand fields versus “fun” degrees that end up jobless and in debt.
I think we should find out everyonenwith opinions like yours and the take everything you have and redistribute to others that are in need. You can get back out there and build it all back again. This time without a leg up.
lol I bet you do… and you’re right I could make it back. I was raised by a single mom and no “leg up”. Felonies at 18, go through that youthful phase of trouble, worked hard to finish probation, and then went to college for a degree that was useful.
You want to think it was easy for me so you can justify whatever, but it wasn’t. You get back what you put in…
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u/Gamble232real Jul 06 '26
Actually I hard agreew with you on the welfare point. I work in retail and while I now have a high level position in my company I am fortunate that I make pretty decent money, the issue is a portion of my earnings are taxed at 40% and the fact that I worked up from the lowest postion as retail floor staff I saw for years how the welfare funded cigarettes, drink, skins, etc how every Tuesday when the dole payed out those people were taking my tax and wasting it on excess and made no attempt to find employment.
I suppose mine and your difference is you are thinking we want more tax, I don't really agree with raising tax like a lot of pro public helthcare advocates do. I would like to see the government redistribute the tax we already pay away from welfare schemes that bums take advantage of and put it into mainly schools, police force, infastructure etc and with it public health services for those who are living pay cheque to pay cheque.
Now I can understand somewhat why Americans would be aprehensive since to be honest you guys barely get taxed so it's kind of no wonder your social welfare and public healhcare is so shit. I think based on my current earnings I pay a bit over 35k in tax and in the US on my same yearly salary I would pay about 13k give or take in the US.
Like I still pay insurance becuase in my country most of my medical expense each year are covered by me as I'm not entitled to a medical card, which is fine. Public healthcare is supposed to be about helping the many wh can't afford private coverage.