I live in high taxes high corruption part of it
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by bigFab@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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9point6@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The corruption is a lovely place to holiday in though
jim3692@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Until you realize your life is in fucking danger there. Nearly every summer, in Greece, we are dealing with wildfires.
Last year, there was a fire in Rhodes during September. People were jumping in the sea to same their life. The response of the government was to provide vouchers to tourists from foreign countries, so that they will visit again next year.
The government gave no shit to Greek people, and I don’t really think people from other countries dared to come again.
Besides the issues with emergency services, there are also pricing problems. I only know about Greece and Turkey. In tourist areas of those countries, all prices are inexcusably high.
VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
This year a wildfire started in the center of fucking Athens.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Or go to Britain and get both
UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Same for Germany ¯\(ツ)/¯
Witziger_Waschbaer@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Come to Cologne, where people are proud of the corruption and nepotism, affectionately called “Klüngel”, that directly turns their tax money into profit for some clever Jeck. For example via an opera house that was supposed to cost 250 million and is currently projected to cost about 1,5 billion.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
My country has made it! We’re now taxes and not corruption! 🎉
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
At least places with taxes have:
- a functioning health care system,
- actual mental health system, not just suggestions from politicians to “go to a church instead”;
- job options for the disabled that aren’t either a brutally underpaid communal work program, or taken out from some frat boy politician’s favorite rtrd joke, who also think people in wheelchair are just “too dumb to even stand up”, and autistic people are “just intellectual rtrds, whose moms slept with their teachers to not get transferred to special ed”.
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
And why is that? Whats the difference between those places that manifests itself in such a way…
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Why not both?
hansolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Flatten that circle into Russia and you basically have the line between Butter Europe and Olive Oil Europe.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Man this Texas is big jokes are getting out of hand
Reads meme again
Oh right…
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Politicians in Germany are corrupt as fuck tho.
autriyo@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
It’s called lobbyism here, so it’s okay.
/s
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Thanks to American Exceptionalism we have both.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
So do you have the president of the central bank steal a third of your yearly GDP while you get taxed 45% on your income, 32% on everything you buy, and also on random bullshit?
Amateurs.
sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
This site is genuinely moronic
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Shitpost ≠ shitty post
Routhinator@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Taxes. Because I have a brain and understand how a civil, functioning society, works.
edupo@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
Redditor trying new grounds…
bigFab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a matter of fact I used Reddit only to find Lemmy and that took less than two weeks. Never came back.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Moronic post.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
UK is in which tub zone … ?
Sconrad122@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes
lornosaj@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Slovakia has both taxes and corruption. Yay.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Taxes for certain
bananabread@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
For certain people, yes
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
This is extremely accurate based on my 25 years of working in CEE.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I’m actually wondering how much of this has to do with the climate, i.e. the physical weather patterns. something like: living in northern countries historically meant that you had a tougher time getting through the winter, because the winters are harsher and longer, so you need to store more food and make sure it doesn’t spoil, which requires extra planning. so as a historical consequence, northern countries end up with a higher degree of organization, including bigger states, more organized tax systems, overall bigger and more organized structures.
You can see many examples of this. all big empires historically have had their center on the northern hemisphere, including england, US, europe, USSR, china. there’s (almost) none on the south.
RedPandaRaider@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Not accurate enough. France falls into the corruption category.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It falls into both actually: the best of both worlds!
TheBronko@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’d say Germany dies not have high taxes IF YOU ARE RICH. Also Germany has lots oft corruption, in my opinion, most oft it is not seen by many people.
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s cute.
Now add Gibraltar to the map.MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Ah, a distinction without a difference
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Imagine thinking there is no corruption up there
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People being fine with higher taxes is a function of a trustworthy system where tax money actually goes to spending that benefits the tax payer.
If the expectation is that the funds get misplaced/pocketed/diverted along the way your average citizen will be far more willing (and view it as far more morally justifiable) to make efforts to avoid/reduce paying taxes.