Social Welfare, Low Taxes, Low Debt

[Dr. Who]

According to https://tradingeconomics.com/country...ncome-tax-rate, top income tax rates are:

Ireland 48.00
Australia 45.00
Switzerland 40.00
Canada 33.00
New Zealand 33.00

Sweden is highest at 61.85.

United States is middling at 37.00.

Bahamas, Bahrain, Bermuda, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates pay 0.

How are Canada and NZ the top at 33 when the US is 37? Am I missing something?

[Dr. Who]

Let's see...how much does Canada pay for its national defense?

Oh, that's right, almost nothing. They're best friends with the biggest kid lion the block.

So too for Australia and New Zealand.

Talk to us about their economic miracles when they are all grown up and standing on their own.

Yeah, who is always leading the charge to invade other countries, not Canada, Australia or New Zealand. 99% of the time its the US who press gangs the UK and that drags in its former colonies. How many countries are waiting with baited breath to invade first world countries. None. That ended with WWII. Nobody can afford it anymore. The MIC has to satisfy themselves with arming all sides of third world conflicts and if they end, the MiC goes out of business. I'll leave it to you to figure out why they are not ending.

[Ethereal]

You mean the Switzerland that still hasn't returned the profits from all the gold fillings the National Socialists mysteriously acquired back in the early 1940's?

Whatever you may think of Switzerland's conduct during WWII, the fact remains, they have never relied on protection from the US.

That helped their economy a lot, didn't it?

Armed neutrality - which is the same policy America's founders pursued - has certainly helped the Swiss economy, yes.

Their citizens enjoy a very high quality of life. There is very low poverty in Switzerland. Their environment is pristine. Their cities immaculate. Their infrastructure is world class. And they do it without high taxes and crushing debt. The US could do it too.

Or, forgetting all thst, since the hatred of socialists for Jewish peasants is well known, how about if we discuss how all of Europe had been able to fund their idiotic kleptomanic socialist scams while cowering under the nuclear umbrella of peace held and financed by US taxpayers, and by the US troops stationed as sacrifices to their defence since the end of wwii?

Huh?

[Chris]

How are Canada and NZ the top at 33 when the US is 37? Am I missing something?

Follow the link I provided to see what that top means. That way you'll learn the value of providing sources.

[Dr. Who]

Follow the link I provided to see what that top means. That way you'll learn the value of providing sources.

The word top is synonymous with highest or it could imply best, however either way you look at it Canada and NZ are neither among the highest rates which are above 50%, nor are they all that close to the truly lowest rates which would be those that are 0-20%. Nothing about the linked data does anything to change that. The average or median value in that data is 30.925.

So what do you mean by "top"?

[zachroidott]

Anxiously awaiting response that answers nothing and implicates the question for the lack. That’s a really popular shtick here.

[donttread]

Let's see...how much does Canada pay for its national defense?

Oh, that's right, almost nothing. They're best friends with the biggest kid lion the block.

So too for Australia and New Zealand.

Talk to us about their economic miracles when they are all grown up and standing on their own.

On the other hand we pay way more than we need to for "national defence" because we are interested in a "national offense"

[donttread]

Switzerland has never depended on protection from the US. Must be why you didn't mention them.

But, but they live differently and don't have as many homeless people. Therefore they must be SOCIALIST!!!

[Rationalist]

Compared to the last few presidents, Trump has pushed for less interventionism and less spending on defending other nations. If future presidents can continue that trend, then we might be able to actually shrink our debt and government overall.

Granted, the welfare state is pretty huge in its own right.

[PJL]

Compared to the last few presidents, Trump has pushed for less interventionism and less spending on defending other nations. If future presidents can continue that trend, then we might be able to actually shrink our debt and government overall. Granted, the welfare state is pretty huge in its own right.

Your corporate welfare is staggering - research the handouts and subsidies to oil companies .....and you could probably afford free medicare with the tax that is avoided using tax havens like the Cayman Islands.....and yes , your president uses them too.