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jokethrowaway on Jan 31, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers o...

The US did good economically in the past couple of centuries.

There's significantly more money in the USA than in a lot of other countries.

Even accounting for the ridiculously high taxes and the work-80hrs culture, the high salaries can be worth it for some people.

anxrn on Jan 31, 2021 [–]

Irrespective of which of the myriad ways you use to compare tax raters, the assertion that the US has "ridiculously high taxes" does not hold up.

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/us-highest-taxed-nation-world

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