Why do so many working class people in Belgium live in poverty after taxes?
Belgium's average tax rate 42% (higher if you are single with no children). Belgium makes Wal-Mart look like a saint to the working classes.
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because they are lazy and need to find better jobs & i bet they aint complaining about healthcare! :p
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I don't think you know what you are talking about. Belgium has a high standard of living with only 4% of its people below the poverty line, compared to about 15% in the US.
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Belgium ranks very high on standard of living indexes and is stable at their position, while the US is declining. Tax rate isn't everything.
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classical liberal and socialist societies perpetuate the idea of "distribution of the wealth" its never carried out like it should in theory, just costs the taxpayers a lot because the government has a hard time grasping the concept of a limited budget.
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did he died?
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Too bad it's not true - people in the Benelux countries mostly have a very good standard of living, and much of that has to do with free higher education, low cost healthcare, and many social help programs for people that need it. And COMPANIES often do better here because they don't have to provide expensive healthcare for their workers, and people sue far LESS OFTEN because everybody gets treated and disability if they are injured somehowe. Fox knows these things, they just don't tell you about them.
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Wherever you have markets, you will have poverty. Markets tend to "weed out" the stupid, immature, substance-addicted, and minorities. Minorities now have legal protection in most advanced democracies, so that they have a chance to prove that they can contribute effectively. Anywhere you look, marginalized people are poor.
