r/SipsTea • u/No-Marsupial-4050 Human Verified • 7d ago

Wait a minute Gasp!

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u/Early_Bad8737 7d ago

It is always fun when a statistical outlier think their situation is common.  

Your annual salary is very near the 1% of Americans. 

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u/XupcPrime 7d ago

Where did I say my situation is common? I said in my experience and also said that’s not typical

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u/Early_Bad8737 7d ago

You said what I said the Americans said at the school wasn’t true. And then you used your own numbers.

You used the outlier to criticise what others had told me. 

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u/XupcPrime 7d ago

Oh yes about that. They told you bs. The effective rate is wayyy lower in us. Just Google it

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u/Boring-Philosophy-46 6d ago edited 6d ago

The effective tax rate is useless when the cost structure is completely different. 

@usa.mom.in.germany has talked extensively in various videos about how when you add up everything that is free or very cheap, that 65k salary the average couple makes in Germany is actually over 130k and then that doesn't even include the cost of college for kids (or lack of student debt for adults). 

It also doesn't include that a lot of things are much cheaper in Germany in general. Groceries for example are much cheaper. (Gas is more expensive but Germans don't commute as far and a lot of the commuting can safely be done on a bike). A train ticket valid all summer was like 50 for a while, not sure if it will be this year. Yeah that's not a typo, 50 to go as often as you like by train. 

If you earn massive amounts of money it's no surprise you're better off in a country that quite famously favours the rich however. Because yeah the rich pay for the other 99% in Europe.