Poor People

[trashleg]

Kasz216 said:

trashleg said:

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.

I thought the Scottish were supposed to get free college.  Are you not going to a scottish school or do i have this mixed up?

yeah thats right, im a Scot in a Scottish university so its all paid for. thats my point, though. the costs are still there, they're just picked up by the Government. so i don't really have any right to object to taxes etc. later in life, because i'll have had my share of "freebies".  however, this may well change when i become another tax-paying citizen.

 

nordlead said:

you are talking income tax only. You still haven't included sales tax, property (and school) tax, and tax for anything else you might have to pay for. My property tax is going to be 5k/year. 3k of which is for elementary/high school even if I never have a child, or if I send him to private school. The town school taxes are so high in NY that the NY state government decided they would start the STAR program which essentially is a state rebate on your local town taxes. Obviously something is really screwed up. Rather than lower taxes, we now have to pay people who manage our rebate on our tax because it is too high.

 yeah, but you were in education when YOU were a child, right? and so back and so back through the generations. its like learning first, picking up the tab later. i know that over here we have a lot more government-funded programmes than you guys though, so i can see how its different for people in different countries. as for sales tax, im assuming thats like our VAT (calue added tax) which is applied to most goods and services (at a rate of 15%), but most of the time when im buying things in shops i dont even think "how much of this is tax?" perhaps thats just inexperience on my part though, lol.