I live in high taxes high corruption part of it
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Submitted 2 months ago by bigFab@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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9point6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The corruption is a lovely place to holiday in though
jim3692@discuss.online 2 months 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 2 months ago
This year a wildfire started in the center of fucking Athens.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 months ago
Or go to Britain and get both
UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same for Germany ¯\(ツ)/¯
Witziger_Waschbaer@feddit.org 2 months 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 2 months ago
My country has made it! We’re now taxes and not corruption! 🎉
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
And why is that? Whats the difference between those places that manifests itself in such a way…
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Why not both?
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Flatten that circle into Russia and you basically have the line between Butter Europe and Olive Oil Europe.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Man this Texas is big jokes are getting out of hand
Reads meme again
Oh right…
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Politicians in Germany are corrupt as fuck tho.
autriyo@feddit.org 2 months ago
It’s called lobbyism here, so it’s okay.
/s
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Thanks to American Exceptionalism we have both.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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 2 months ago
This site is genuinely moronic
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Shitpost ≠ shitty post
Routhinator@startrek.website 2 months ago
Taxes. Because I have a brain and understand how a civil, functioning society, works.
edupo@europe.pub 2 months ago
Redditor trying new grounds…
bigFab@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Moronic post.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
UK is in which tub zone … ?
Sconrad122@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes
lornosaj@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Slovakia has both taxes and corruption. Yay.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Taxes for certain
bananabread@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
For certain people, yes
realitista@lemmus.org 2 months ago
This is extremely accurate based on my 25 years of working in CEE.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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 2 months ago
Not accurate enough. France falls into the corruption category.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It falls into both actually: the best of both worlds!
TheBronko@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
That’s cute.
Now add Gibraltar to the map.MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Ah, a distinction without a difference
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Imagine thinking there is no corruption up there
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 2 months 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.