Comments by "" (@Cloud_Seeker) on "BankWars: Weimar Hyperinflation Episode 3" video.

@maik10mrrck80 The idea can go and find a stone to be under. It is just words. Lies are also words. Just because someone say something doesn't mean it is true. You have to look at the actions and not the words. So about taxes. Yes. The taxes are high. That should be fine if I got something for it. However I don't. A friend my mother have has a skin issue. She went to three different doctors and ALL of them said that the previous doctor failed in their job. One of them even gave out medication that should NEVER be used to treat that issue. I myself has nearly been killed twice due to the lack of attention in the healthcare service. The schools in the area are so poorly maintained that you were able to see through the walls in some places. Do you think this sounds like I get a service worth 70% of my salary every single month? I am pretty sure I can have gotten better service myself if I didn't have to pay the taxes. The reason we have high taxes is not because the government use it to help the public. Most of it is wasted in bureaucrats and worthless projects that never goes anywhere. The reason we have high taxes is because the Social Democracy of Sweden works by redistributing wealth. You know. Like a socialist redistribute wealth from the rich to the people. During this winter and last winter the electricity price were high. REALLY high. The government can do two things to help people: - They can lower the penalty taxes and other taxes on electricity. This will lower the price of electricity while keeping the price correct in the free market. It will also help people based on the amount of electricity they use. It autocorrect itself and help people without figuring out who suffered the most. You also get more bang for your buck since it doesn't employ anyone to solve this issue. - They can also give subsidies to people based on who had to pay the most. This will employ bureaucrats as someone needs to figure out who paid what, and they also take tax money to give to people. So you basically collect taxes from people, only to give a smaller portion back to them again. This is pretty much the least effective option to help people, but it does other things. It make people dependent on the state if they want to pay their electricity bill. It also benefit those who use the most amount of electricity. Those who save electricity does not benefit from this as they pay out subsidies for how much you have used and what you saved. Since the social democratic state of Sweden does the socialist idea of redistributing the wealth rather than letting the market solve it like a capitalist. They went with the second option. They redistributed the wealth. They rather want you to be dependent on your government handouts than having a market that does it thing without the government intervention. Now with high inflation and high food costs. Who do you think is putting pressure on food distributors and power supply companies to lower their cost or face price controls? The Social democrats ofc. Just last week they argued that we should collectivize food distribution and energy supplies "for the people". Can you please tell me again how Social Democrats are not socialist when they stand in parliament arguing for collectivization just a week or so ago?
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Because they literally are socialists. Do you even know what social democracy even is? You must be an American. Are you going to say that a chihuahua isn't a dog breed next as well? Social Democracy was literally created as a ideology to achieve a socialist society in totality. Unlike ideologies like Communism that favored violent revolution and a instant change into a socialist society, Social Democracy favored a non-violent revolution that changed society slowly through reforms. So what Social Democracy is all about is that they will get the communist society as well where the political party hold all power and all control. They just achieve it slowly by always grabbing more and more power away from the private individual and make you dependent on the state through reforms. This is why not a single social democrat has ever advocated for a lower tax burden and always favored solving inequalities and issues through higher taxes and then handing out subsidies. This is to ensure that you are dependent on the money the state gives you and that you shouldn't rely on the value you produce by yourself. This is why countries like Sweden pay around 50%-80% of their salaries in taxes. Most of it is in taxes they never get to see as they are hidden.
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@maik10mrrck80 I am from Sweden. Why do you think I know we pay at least 50-80% in taxes? Where are you from? No. Social Democrats are still socialists. They are not capitalists at all. They never make decisions that favor capitalism. They only use capitalism to build wealth they can take and redistribute. Trust me. I do not think "socialism sound scary". I know more then well what it is and what it isn't. So again. Where are you from? Do you actually live in a Social Democracy or do you live where people talk about it but never actually seen it in action?
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@maik10mrrck80 Oh I am just talking about then regular before you get to spend your money. Want me to prove it? You make a salary of 10.000 euro. The income tax is 25%. Sure it is pretty high but alright. But hold on. You have already been taxed before you even get to pay income tax. Your employer is forced to pay "Social fees" which is 31,42% of your salary before tax. This means that when your employer hires you, they do not pay out 10.000 euro to you. They pay 13.142 euro to you as that is what you cost to hire. In other words you are actually worth 31,42% MORE than what you are asking for if you can keep a job. So now you have to pay your 25% in income tax and you have 7.500 euro left. But in reality you have paid 5.642 euro in taxes before you even got your money. That is about 43% in taxes. But where does those other numbers come from? Now you have your 7.500 euro, but you wish to spend it and actually use it. Lets buy a new TV. However there is Value Added Taxes as well. That is 25%. So if you wish to spend your money, you need to pay 25% of it in tax before you get to buy anything. So if we remove VAT you are left with 5625 euro. You have now paid 57.2% of the money your employer paid you in taxes. Just for having the privilege of making and using money you had to give almost 60% of it to the government in taxes. You can see this as you working for free for 7 months and only make money the last 5 months in a year. However we are not done. Oh no we are not. This is just the basic taxes so far. If you own a car you pay penalty taxes gasoline or diesel. Those taxes stand for most of the price you pay. If you want to use electricity in your home you also got to pay penalty taxes on that as the government want to "achieve our environmental goal". And ofc these penalty taxes are baked into the price itself so you got to pay VAT on the tax. So you got to pay taxes ON taxes as VAT is applied to the final price and does not exclude any penalty tax. If you want to buy electronic you get to pay recycling fees even if it is brand new, and chemical fees because it is treated in chemicals to prevent fires. To calculate the final number is pretty much impossible as it depends on what you do. If you ascetic person that live without running water, heat, home, car and are pretty much always starving. Yeah. You can get away with maybe only paying 50% in taxes. But if you are not. You pay way WAY more. I should say most people pay 70% of everything to the government. Do you see how much money you pay in taxes and it is hidden to everyone right? Most people think they only pay 25% in taxes when it is over twice that amount. "What is socialism? I might be wrong. Who knows." - Socialism is when the government owns or controls the means of production and resources within a nation. In other words. If a government owns a factory, or is in control of the leadership that operate the factory. That is socialism. Now I have a question for you. During the pandemic. Where you restricted from going to work or use your property as you wished to? Did Germany have a lockdown that restricted your actions? I believe the answer is YES. Now. How exactly can a government tell you what you can and can't do with your property if they do not own it? They can't. The reason they can tell you what to do is because they actually control it. You were not allowed to make your own independent decision on the matter. It was made for you, and you were demanded to follow. This is socialism. The government might not have their name of the papers. But they still tell you how you can use your own stuff. They have the control over factories and everything that produce value in a society. You do not. They do. If you disagree you will have the police paying you a visit.
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@maik10mrrck80 Were you allowed to go to the factory and produce what you wanted during the lockdown? Were you in control there or was someone else?
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@maik10mrrck80 So when people argue for collectivization. It is still capitalism. Right.... I think you have no idea what capitalism is.
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@milkmen2914 Most likely because he thinks like a brainwashed communist.
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Yet the Catholic church has only once in history made an alliance with ANYONE. That alliance was the nazis.
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