• WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yeah having to do your taxes yourself is fucking archaic and stupid. They know how much you owe them. Either deduct that when people are paid (falls on the employer) or just tell people what they owe.

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        2 months ago

        Well, again, the taxes are not the problem, but the bad design of the deduction process. The war on taxes, especially in the US but also in Europe, is a strategy from the right and neoliberals to cut down on social welfare and essentially redistribute money to the rich.

        Taxes are good and important, but it’s difficult to figure out what to tax and by how much, and how to use the money well.

    • Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      There’s certainly taxes, I paid income tax and they revised the rates at least once while I was living there. No sales tax that I noticed but that’s not the only tax.