/biz/ - Business & Finance

Can we agree on this one:
1. GENERALLY speaking, the average living standard in the US is considerably higher than in Germany.
More people own their home, houses are bigger, people own more luxury items and have more disposable income.
2.Two caveats are in order: first, the variation in the US is a lot larger, and the very poorest in the US are poorer than the poor in Germany.

My experience with taxes:
In the US when filling out your tax form, you can always call a toll-free telephone number and friendly people will help you or send you easy-to-understand instructions. The tax forms are quite easy to fill out, and at the end you know exactly how much taxes you owe. You can even file your whole taxes over the phone.
Compare that to complicated Byzantine tax forms in Germany which are much longer than those in the US. The instructions for the German forms use nearly incomprehensible legalese. Once you have filled out everything, someone checks it all and computes your actual tax load which you only learn much later. By German standards, taxes in the US, at least for medium incomes and above, are laughably low, which makes the constant American complaining about high taxes seem rather funny to me.

>>16465640
>but is this shit really worth it?
You know the answer.