Car insurance Health insurance Dental insurance
All insurance really
Also renewing license plates/licenses
Basically if you need to make a yearly or monthly payment to keep using something it's a scam in my eyes.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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SaniFair is a scam that every German is aware of yet it's normalized.
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Honest questions. Why do you seem unable to change anything of this? If you leave in a democratic country, why the majority of people won't change the second amendment, the college tuition scam, swap to a free healthcare system, and vote people that won't start another war in the name of democracy?
EDIT: I reckon it's complicated, but you must have some opinions about the final motive(s) for this. Who/what is keeping things like this?
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Things used to be a lot simpler & cheaper in the US, but then we passed the War Revenue Act in 1917 which drastically increased the budget & helped to pay for the war. They probably saw all that money rolling in & got greedy. What was initially designed as a war-time fund raising effort is now just standard taxation, it has gotten worse, and the people being born & working & dying nowadays don't know anything different.
The government wastes so much money. Whose money? They don't have any money! They're wasting our money, that they extract from us via taxation.
We are financially raped into the ground, not allowed to enjoy the fruits of our own labor.
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary law.