| mrstickball said: Just remember, you get what you pay for. To quote The Moon Is a Harsh Misteress 'There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch'. Once out of school, if you make 37,400 pounds a year, and have a normal career span (30 yrs), you will have paid the govement 448,800 pounds in federal taxes. Not to mention any sort of additional taxes such as council taxes. Do you think your healthcare and schooling were worth almost half a million pounds you'dpay out? That's kind of the argument tax payers look at. I'm glad your seeing our way. Again, it's something you can only really see through the veil when your actually there, paying taxes. Of course, no one wants, or likes, to pay taxes, but when we do, we want to make sure that it goes towards valid programs. In America, we have some horribly inefficient programs such as Social Security - , a 8.0% Tax on income taken from every non-governmental, non-self employed person. The pension program acrues interest at 1.3% APY. For comparison, my savings account accrues at 2.2% APY, and a government pension plan (such as the state workers OPERS in Ohio) accrues at 10% on average. |
wow thats crazy :\
but my schooling, by the end of it, will have cost... about 8k, plus 16k so thats like 32k just for 2 years of college and 4 years of uni (even tho im only in my 2nd year at uni)
but then there's things like primary/secondary school education that im gonna expect to be free if and when the time ever comes for me to have kids, and the police force and emergency services staff who need to be paid... i know that half a million is a hell of a lot of money, and i will probably feel very bitter and angry within a few years of paying any of these taxes, but for now i can still say that as long as i have enough, money isnt everything. its not what you've got, its what you do with it.. which, funnily enough, ties in perfectly to this thread 
lol.
my brain hurts. on the one hand i think "i dont mind too much" but on the other i know the whole thing's a sham. meep.
