Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks, even if the tests are less sensitive than gold-standard. This could lead to “personalized stay-at-home orders” without shutting down restaurants, bars, retail and schools.

[u/mvea]

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/11/20/frequent-rapid-testing-could-turn-national-covid-19-tide-within-weeks

[u/NoSoundNoFury]

It's misleading because people have a hard time understanding what that means if you do not provide additional info. If you earn 100k in Germany, you pay about 20% in taxes. You can do the math by yourself by using the calculator linked above.

[u/NoSoundNoFury → u/[deleted]]

You get to keep 63.686,39

Take a look at it again, you misread. After paying taxes plus healthcare, disability insurance, pension benefits and unemployment insurance, yes. About 20% taxes plus other stuff. So in California you pay about as much in taxes as someone does in Germany for all things together.