fitznj wrote:
My tax on 57k was less than 6k. So much for "tax liability".
What no sales tax in Canada? Property Tax? Township tax? County tax?
and the other multitude of taxes.
The cost for health care has to come from somewhere, if not from
you then from your neighbour. It's certainly not "free" as you
stated.
As stated, the USA is an exceptionally generous country, if you have
medical emergency, you won't be left on the sidewalk and left to die.
The rest of us pay those taxes, so folks like pianotuna can have free healthcare, too.
Whoever said, if you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it's free, hit the proverbial nail on the cranium.
It's not free, nor are we because we're all beholden to the mighty governments to dole it out in a "wait your turn" system that really suks if you look at the statistics on wait times for simple stuff, that you'd get done the same day in the US, albeit for a lot of up front money, or your insurance company's up front money.
I prefer your (USA) system of only pay for what you think you'll need, plus the catastrophic coverage while you're younger and healthy, and hope you never need it.
