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Andrew Yang presidential candidate discussing male suicide and compassion for men

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October 15, 2019

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Title	Andrew Yang presidential candidate discussing male suicide and compassion for men
Author	autoeroticassfxation
Upvotes	106
Comments	37
Date	October 15, 2019 3:13 AM UTC (6 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/di1sgh/andrew_yang_presidential_candidate_discussing/
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i'm from belgium where we get "free" education (i mean 900€ a year) and "free" healthcare...
Our schools are broke. Teachers have low salaries and are not attracted to the job to the point where we have a shortage of qualified teachers.
If you look at international ranking, we are far behind the US when it comes to "best universities in the world".
We are not "bad" and i'm sure there are worst schools in the US.
We also have free healthcare but just like education, it really isn't free, it is just that you pay high income taxes (anyone earning above € 45,000 will pay 50+ % income taxes compared to California where it is 30% for $ 500,000+ in earnings).

We have shortage in some drugs and a lot of medical personnel like nurses come from eastern europe because the long hours and low salary discourage belgians to do it.

When the government doesn't have money to pay, they use our pension funds and just raise the age of legal pension ( we are at 67 years old now).

this system works if you have high taxes, no cheater to the system and if your average citizen is healthy and does not get serious ilnesses. and by works i mean survive

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[–]Pioustarcraft 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Belgium has free healthcare and free education (cost less than a thousand dollar for a year at university). You can fail 3 times your 1st year at university and only on the 4th try you'll have to pay it yourself (50% of students fail their 1st year at university by the way).
If Belgium more competitive than the USA or Germany ? No because we have MASSIVE taxes on companies so manufacturing goes abroad (like Caterpillar who closed a profitable plant to relocate abroad cause 10,000 job loss)...
Yeah the US need to keep a very high level of education and make sure the best students have access to the best courses to stay competitive. But free college also attracts students that will do nothing and fail because they have no motivatio and not enough intelligence to study. They will attend university because everybody attends university and to get a job you need a university degree and it is free to attend so why not try if the tax payer are footing the bill anyway

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Thanks, but I'm not actually American ;) I just like following American politics

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[–]Pioustarcraft 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (10 children) | Copy Link

ok so VAT in Belgium is 21%
So when a company sells a product for 100 € in fact the consumer pays € 121. It is 6% on some products and 12% on some others but mainly 21%. Germany's VAT is 19% so many Belgians cross the border to Germany to buy stuff like TVs, smartphones and so on (no border controle as it is liberty of movement and goods between EU countries). Belgian also cross the border to Luxembourg where oil/gaz is cheaper (at the border there is litteraly a line of gaz station from every imaginable brand for miles).
They also cross the French border to buy food as it is also cheaper there. Belgian businesses are not happy about it but can't do anything about it.
So yeah i'm not saying americans will shop in mexico and canada as the distances are vastly larger and borders are controled...

[–]creaturefeature2012 -1 points0 points1 point 6 years ago (9 children) | Copy Link

So you're saying people in Belgium go to Germany where the VAT is 9% higher than what Yang is proposing and where staples aren't even exempt from it? Sounds like if they had the option, shopping in the US where the VAT would only be 10% would be a dream. People wouldn't shop in Canada or Mexico either because Mexico has a VAT higher than the one Yang proposes and Canada has a VAT + provincial sales tax that adds up to a total "harmonized sales tax" of about 13% on average depending on the province. The US is basically the only first world country that doesn't already have a VAT so I am not sure why people are so afraid of it, especially when Yang's version of a VAT is so much smaller and more restricted then the ones in other countries and it'll be used to fund a basic income that will give us all more buying power.

[–]Pioustarcraft 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (8 children) | Copy Link

VAT in Belgium is 21% and in Germany it is 19% so in Germany everything is "2% cheaper". So instead of buying in Belgium and making the belgian economy work, they would rather buy "foreign" product at lower cost.
Indeed shopping in the US would be a dream if there wasn't import tax to pay... Many people, when travelling to the US, will buy stuff from Abercrombie and Holister and so on as it is "cheaper" and less common here. They would buy just a few for personnal use to avoid being caught at the border importing goods without paying an import tax. VAT is a zero sum game for company as they pay it and 3 months later they get is paid back. It is not however for the final consumer who has to foot the bill.
Let's say that you can barely afford something now, with VAT, the thing you could barely afford will cost 10% more... basically everything will be 10% more expensive. So if your salary is raised accordingly then you shouldn't see the difference. If your salary stays the same then you loose 10% of purchasing power.
There is nothing to be afraid of, it is just another tax like if we raised every income tax by 10%...

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it is not that people are "willing" to pay or not... it is not a choice between paying normal price and paying 19% more. There only once price which includes VAT so people pay it and not by choice. The proof is that they could pay 21% VAT or € 121 in Belgium but they would rather pay less in Germany for the same product or € 119...

Yes, your monthly $2,000 will increase your purchase power during a few months/year but the law of offer and demand can't be stoped... If suddenly you get an increase in cash supply, the demand for products will rise because people have a bigger purchasing power and the price will increase following the increase in demand. So yes, at first, the $ 1,000 will have a big impact and you'll buy more stuff but the more time will pass, the less impact will your $ 1,000 have due to inflation and slowly but surely your purchasing power will fall to get back to where it was.

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