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"First, you work all month, and then you give half of the money to those who couldn't work."

fixed the wording for you.




It sounds like Taxes in Berlin are extremely effective. In the US my Taxes seem to just vanish.


The biggest chunk of those taxes are mandatory government insurance programs. The government may or may not be running them poorly but you can definitively say that the money is being used for a specific purpose.


He said:

> those who didn't work

He didn't say "those who wouldn't work".

People that receive money from government programs include the disabled, aged, carers, students, those seeking work who can work, and those not seeking work who can work.




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