alt Hacker NewsDenmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland.
You don’t get world-class infrastructure, universal healthcare, and top-tier education without paying for it. High taxes are the price of a civilized society. Get over it!
Life isn’t meant to be a Squid Game.
While I agree those are great things, don’t fool yourself - someone IS paying for it
Those countries have a population that is a fraction of the US. I’m sure they make more effective use of their taxes too. In the US, taxes continue to rise and health care and education costs rise even more. There are many things that are broken. Painting all billionaires as the problem and thinking that confiscating their wealth via taxes will solve the issues… is a popular rallying cry but is not an actual solution