I was told growing up that I won’t like socialism once I have to start paying taxes. I pay taxes, but would much rather pay way more taxes to have socialism. Including paying for social programs I wouldn’t use like welfare, free tuition etc.
Once I qualified for work pharmacare that was great! But I remember how much it sucked not having any health insurance. Yeah I bootstrapped it, but I’d hope we would grow up as a species and not have to have so much bootstrapping, since there are better ways at this point.
Here in Denmark the highest possible tax is 52%, but not many people have to pay that much. Most people pay around 15%. Also the sales tax is usually 25%. But some things like medical practices don’t have any. And if you have to pay more than $150.56 for medicin, the government will pay 50% in subsidy. More if you have buy more. see the table here. I don’t think I know anybody who is against it. It’s really easy to manage your money, when not much has to be paid. It’s mostly rent, food, clothing, transportation and entertainment.
I could handle that! I think the biggest obstacle for us (US), is that our government isn’t very trustworthy.