#Income Inequality Discussions as a U.S. #American 🇺🇸 in #Germany 🇩🇪 #incomeinequality

[usa.mom.in.germany]

Sorry for the background noise! 💚 It’s a German 🇩🇪 holiday and I have kiddos 🙂

[kristinamelnichenko]

All those damn kids wanting education, how are we supposed to afford corporate subsidies?! The poors never think of that.

[jaketaylor]

Where's that quote that's like "if you're struggling, your enemy is not other people who are struggling"

[peter_meyer]

“The people in dinghies are rapists and thieves”

“And that makes them different to the people in yachts how?”

[Alacritous]

"It’s weird to me that there are workers out there who complain about the taxes coming off their paycheque, yet they never complain about their employer’s profits coming off their paycheque."
-- Kim Siever

[Justsomebody]

I live in the uk. I used to be a single mother earning £8, 000 a year working full time. That’s not enough to survive so I was granted working tax credits and child tax credits. The child tax covered my childcare costs by 40%. My working tax was about £800 a month. With 21.40 a week for child benefit. I now work 32 hours a week different job and get paid 20, 000 a year after tax. I’m technically entitled to £40 a month from the government. Which I don’t claim because it’s £40 that someone else needs more than me. That £40 would be unnoticed. I don’t need it. I might never be able to buy a house but I am saving monthly. I am so grateful for that. So many people in my work are totally against the benefits “bums” get. People that don’t want to work is what they claim. But there’s me working my ass off and still needing benefits to survive they are so lucky that they have never been in that situation because they got a job and have always had a job. Not everyone’s life pans out that way. I fell pregnant at 17 had him at 18 moved out my parents at 19. Council flat which is basically social housing. Then my partner lost his job that was paying 27, 000 a year. We moved into his parents. Saved all our money then his car broke down and we had to buy a truck for his new job. Which was expensive to run and seemed to need new parts all the time. After a year it got written off and all our money went on the new car which we had to take a loan to buy. So yeah not everyone’s life pans out. Yes there are defos people milking the system but majority need it in order to survive

[TheFunkadelicFan]

The rich don't have enough money, and the poor have too much money. Ronald Reagan said so.

[steamroller]

Bring back tax brackets for the rich. Tax the capitalist parasites.

[katfox]

As a canadian who regularly tries to make americans understand that *Im am okay with paying taxes so the people i love and havent even met have their health requirements met*
This is basically how the conversation goes every time.
My favorite line is "Well if the poors want better Healthcare they should get a job with better health insurance. " 🤷‍♀️

[kimberleyhosmer]

It’s not poor people who are refusing to raise wages. It’s not poor people who are greedily hoarding money and resources for themselves while others suffer. It is not poor people who make the laws that dictate how much you can earn, where you can afford to live and how much you have to pay for health care, rent or mortgage payments or what😮 your interest rate will be. Stop kicking down and start banding together with other struggling people to make changes.

[PassTheSnails]

This is a german psy op to make me wanna move from the US and honestly its kind of working

[wiyxgyo]

“Those poors blew all the middle class people’s money on food instead of working for food themselves.” “But almost all of the poors are working, and the rest are looking for work, disabled, over 70, or caring for multiple small children full time, so they are either working or can’t work profitability. If they are working, they only need assistance on the form of food because despite working, they aren’t getting paid enough, and because they work they don’t get very much assistance, and if they aren’t working, they are still getting way too little to live while being required to either search for work or study at least half time. Even if they can work because if they are carrying for multiple small children how can they make enough after tax to pay for what the childcare assistance won’t pay for. And this is not even considering that most poors on assistance are children. And besides we spend way more of our taxes on things that have nothing to do with helping the poors and we never hear about that or whether that is a problem…..” “No that sounds complicated, so I’m gonna assume it’s the poors’ fault.”

[eh]

Help! I can’t stop playing this ☝️… over… and over … and over again. 😢

So sad. So true. So beautiful. Thank you.

[blackbaptism]

American here from Minnesota, I just want to applaud you ♥️ you deconstruct this mess so succinctly.

[michaelh]

That is exactly what it is like to talk to a Trump supporter. for being in Germany you are frighteningly accurate.

[davidvernon]

I can not tell you how many times i have had this conversation with the local hillbillies!

[thesmith]

This is my dad. He thinks everyone is super rich except him and everyone is just like....lying or something idk

[fiig]

This is all over my nextdoor app as not satire . Basically the post goes “ I saw someone shoplifting and then the store employees didn’t do anything about it. And that’s why prices are so high!” Like yeah, it’s a billion dollar company that just lost cents. That’s it. Not the corporate greed to hike up prices so the ceo can make a record breaking profit. Definitely not them.

[bethanywood]

The tiny baby "duh" at this time was accidental but comedically perfect

[JayeEllis]

On one hand, they say 'don't feed stray dogs because they breed' and on the other hand, they are basically forcing poor people to breed. Can someone explain those two very opposing viewpoints of a certain political ideology?