| NJ5 said: You missed (or I didn't explain well) the part where I said that the tax percentages get lower as you go up the brackets. Situation 1 Guy 1: salary = 100, tax = 16 + 2 = 18 Guy 2: salary = 50, tax = 10 Total tax = 28 Situation 2 Guy 1: salary = 90, tax = 16 + 1 = 17 Guy 2: salary = 60, tax = 12 Total tax = 29 That's how it works in Denmark and Sweden, and I suspect other countries too. I had never thought about the problem we're discussing, but in retrospect it's a nice property of this system. PS: Yes, it's quite ridiculous to have a system in which you actually make more money by having a smaller salary. That doesn't happen with the tax system here.
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Isn't that a regressive tax then? That definitly isn't how it works in the US.
