Non-IT News Thread
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.businessinsider.com/tax-rates-take-home-salaries-40-countries-2018-5
A very misleading article.
Depending on your lifestyle and family size, your take home pay and what you pay in taxes in the #40th country could potentially be a lot more valuable to you than one below #20, the US for example.
Also misleading, where in the US do you get such a low tax rate? Maybe if you ignore the cost of healthcare, but even then, it's nowhere close.
I don't think it's considering Healthcare or anything. I think just straight federal/state/local taxes, if that.
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@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.businessinsider.com/tax-rates-take-home-salaries-40-countries-2018-5
A very misleading article.
Depending on your lifestyle and family size, your take home pay and what you pay in taxes in the #40th country could potentially be a lot more valuable to you than one below #20, the US for example.
Also misleading, where in the US do you get such a low tax rate? Maybe if you ignore the cost of healthcare, but even then, it's nowhere close.
I don't think it's considering Healthcare or anything. I think just straight federal/state/local taxes, if that.
Yeah, which is REALLY scammy. Because healthcare costs are required, ergo taxes, in the US. It's collected by a federal proxy and is required federally and if you don't pay it, you are fined (taxed) by the feds. It's a tax in every sense. And it is a huge number. Using private tax collectors doesn't make it less a tax - because it is compulsory contribution to state revenues levied by the government on income or profits. It's as tax as tax gets.
All those other 39 countries all call their healthcare tax a tax and it is wrapped up into their percentages. So the US number isn't comparable.
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18% tax rate in the US? Where? Mine is 40% at least. 33% to Fed and another 10% of everything else i spend goes to WA, plus the hidden taxes in the sticker price of things like beer and food.
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
18% tax rate in the US? Where? Mine is 40% at least. 303% to Fed and another 10% of everything else i spend goes to WA, plus the hidden taxes in the sticker price of things like beer and food.
Yeah articles like that are a joke.
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
Eh I can't see the article...
Comes up here.
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I got a whoops page and then it reloaded to their default website.
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It is also clickbait with no substantiation of the "facts" presented.
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Semi-famous actor (because I don't know who he is, so I can't claim he's famous as I have no idea if anyone will know him) sends this tweet without explanation and doesn't claim it was a Google mistake..
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/sex-gifs-6.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Semi-famous actor (because I don't know who he is, so I can't claim he's famous as I have no idea if anyone will know him) sends this tweet without explanation and doesn't claim it was a Google mistake..
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/sex-gifs-6.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
He was the brother-in-law on Breaking Bad... decent actor did a good job in that show.
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@coliver has a familiar look, I've probably seen him in lots of stuff and just don't remember him.
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