Redditor trying new grounds…
As a matter of fact I used Reddit only to find Lemmy and that took less than two weeks. Never came back.
My country has made it! We’re now taxes and not corruption! 🎉
Thanks to American Exceptionalism we have both.
So do you have the president of the central bank steal a third of your yearly GDP while you get taxed 45% on your income, 32% on everything you buy, and also on random bullshit?
Amateurs.
Moronic post.
I live in high taxes high corruption part of it
Max-stats 😎
Politicians in Germany are corrupt as fuck tho.
It’s called lobbyism here, so it’s okay.
/s
The corruption is a lovely place to holiday in though
Until you realize your life is in fucking danger there. Nearly every summer, in Greece, we are dealing with wildfires.
Last year, there was a fire in Rhodes during September. People were jumping in the sea to same their life. The response of the government was to provide vouchers to tourists from foreign countries, so that they will visit again next year.
The government gave no shit to Greek people, and I don’t really think people from other countries dared to come again.
Besides the issues with emergency services, there are also pricing problems. I only know about Greece and Turkey. In tourist areas of those countries, all prices are inexcusably high.
This year a wildfire started in the center of fucking Athens.
Then it’s not wild, it’s urban.
Not accurate enough. France falls into the corruption category.
It falls into both actually: the best of both worlds!
Flatten that circle into Russia and you basically have the line between Butter Europe and Olive Oil Europe.
This is extremely accurate based on my 25 years of working in CEE.
Man this Texas is big jokes are getting out of hand
Reads meme again
Oh right…
Slovakia has both taxes and corruption. Yay.
Taxes for certain
Imagine thinking there is no corruption up there, or no taxes down there
People being fine with higher taxes is a function of a trustworthy system where tax money actually goes to spending that benefits the tax payer.
If the expectation is that the funds get misplaced/pocketed/diverted along the way your average citizen will be far more willing (and view it as far more morally justifiable) to make efforts to avoid/reduce paying taxes.
I feel you’re heavily underestimating the dreaded combo of public perception and complacency.
From what I’ve seen, there have been plenty of attempts for the traditionally corrupt governments to better themselves, but the populous blocking it by going “yeah, right”. Same thing with high trust goverments becoming more corrupt and people excusing it with “we have the good government!”
UK is in which zone … ?
Yes
