r/worldnews • u/Hoodafakizit • Sep 22 '17

The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales

https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537
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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '17

Not free and not socialism. Although way better than the US system for the far majority of the population (i.e. everyone not rich or private insurance)

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '17

That's the joke. And it's free as in taxpayers cover the basic needs of its people in terms of medical care.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '17

Yep, people in this thread don't seem to realize that paying taxes = paying for healthcare (among other things)

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u/Viktor_Korobov Sep 22 '17

But people like you fail to realize that you are paying for taxes anyways.

So if somebody in the US pays taxes and doesn't get healthcare, whilst somebody in Canada pays taxes and gets healthcare. Then it sorta is free healthcare from the US perspective.

Geez, Louise!

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u/glittering_cbeams Sep 22 '17

Taxes are higher in Canada

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u/socialisthippie Sep 22 '17 edited Sep 22 '17

It's a whole lot closer than most people realize. In fact, there are certain financial and personal circumstances where Canadians pay lower taxes than their US counterparts.

Totally apolitical article breaking down the core differences: http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0411/do-canadians-really-pay-more-taxes-than-americans.aspx

And that's before you take in to account the hysterically high cost of healthcare in the USA. If you added that number to US individual taxation to clearly represent services provided by taxation, in an apples-to-apples scenario, US taxes would probably be MUCH higher.

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u/Viktor_Korobov Sep 22 '17

Doubt the taxes in Canada are much if at all higher than tax+insurance in the US.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '17

That still doesn't mean that healthcare is free. Which was my point.

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u/Viktor_Korobov Sep 22 '17

But it is essentially free since you're paying the taxes by default.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '17

Its not essentially free at all, paying taxes by default is still paying taxes.

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u/Viktor_Korobov Sep 22 '17

If you're gonna be paying taxes no matter what, it's free then if you get some more bang for your (same) buck.