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Not accurate enough. France falls into the corruption category.
It falls into both actually: the best of both worlds!
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Taxes for certain
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Redditor trying new grounds…
As a matter of fact I used Reddit only to find Lemmy and that took less than two weeks. Never came back.
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Man these Texas is big jokes are getting out of hand
Reads meme again
Oh right…
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Slovakia has both taxes and corruption. Yay.
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Taxes for certain
For certain people, yes
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UK is in which zone ... ?
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Imagine thinking there is no corruption up there, or no taxes down there
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Lol, imagine being so naive (or dense) you think these two things can exist without each other.
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The corruption is a lovely place to holiday in though
wrote last edited by [email protected]Until you realize your life is in fucking danger there. Nearly every summer, in Greece, we are dealing with wildfires.
Last year, there was a fire in Rhodes during September. People were jumping in the sea to save their life. The response of the government was to provide vouchers to tourists from foreign countries, so that they will visit again next year.
The government gave no shit to Greek people, and I don't really think people from other countries dared to come again.
Besides the issues with emergency services, there are also pricing problems. I only know about Greece and Turkey. In tourist areas of those countries, all prices are inexcusably high.
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Shitpost ≠ shitty post
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Imagine thinking there is no corruption up there, or no taxes down there
People being fine with higher taxes is a function of a trustworthy system where tax money actually goes to spending that benefits the tax payer.
If the expectation is that the funds get misplaced/pocketed/diverted along the way your average citizen will be far more willing (and view it as far more morally justifiable) to make efforts to avoid/reduce paying taxes.
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Or go to Britain and get both
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Ah, a distinction without a difference
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Why not both?
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Or go to Britain and get both
Same for Germany ¯\(ツ)/¯
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At least places with taxes have:
- a functioning health care system,
- actual mental health system, not just suggestions from politicians to "go to a church instead";
- job options for the disabled that aren't either a brutally underpaid communal work program, or taken out from some frat boy politician's favorite r*t*rd joke, who also think people in wheelchair are just "too dumb to even stand up", and autistic people are "just intellectual r*t*rds, whose moms slept with their teachers to not get transferred to special ed".
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Lol, imagine being so naive (or dense) you think these two things can exist without each other.
In Hungary, the effective tax rate is ~33%, we also have 27%(!) VAT, but hey, if you're making the grandchildren of Fidesz voters work "real manly job", you can get a 0% tax rate on your business.
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People being fine with higher taxes is a function of a trustworthy system where tax money actually goes to spending that benefits the tax payer.
If the expectation is that the funds get misplaced/pocketed/diverted along the way your average citizen will be far more willing (and view it as far more morally justifiable) to make efforts to avoid/reduce paying taxes.
I feel you're heavily underestimating the dreaded combo of public perception and complacency.
From what I've seen, there have been plenty of attempts for the traditionally corrupt governments to better themselves, but the populous blocking it by going "yeah, right".
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Same for Germany ¯\(ツ)/¯
Come to Cologne, where people are proud of the corruption and nepotism, affectionately called "Klüngel", that directly turns their tax money into profit for some clever Jeck. For example via an opera house that was supposed to cost 250 million and is currently projected to cost about 1,5 billion.
