Taxation and the middle class

[Vojnik_Vahaj]

Ok fair enough. To your point about tax waste, I know that Denmark has VERY high tax rates but the people don't really complaing because they have a very non-corrupt government and most of their tax money goes directly back into improving their standard of living.

Also, with and aging population, there will be a greater burden on the younger, working generations to support the retirees and I'm guessing that would be through more(but maybe not too much more) taxation to support public elder care facilities. For this, I think we should bring back multi-generational homes. They're a win-win in most cases. The grandparents get a place to live and in return babysit the children. Now, obviously some might not be able to take care of themselve for one reason or another, but in those cases there should be long-term care facilities or in-home nurses that come every day to help out when the household's breadwinners are at work. this obviously would require a good economy, which we don't have, but if its possible in poorer countries, a western country should be able to do it.

Care to define "bring back"..who is the voice in that passive sentence?

Multi-generational homes are not something our culture really sees as normalized, in fact, it's actually seen as a sign of failure (and is in fact being driven by our failure in housing) and there are various reasons for this in our society. But whether you think it's a good idea or not, changing this would involve pretty fundamental changes to our culture. So how does one change this?

Solutions, no matter how good or bad, need to be sociological in nature, and yes, that absolutely means also political.

Every society has had multigenerational housing at some point, it just needs to be more normalized in our current society. How to change this? Couldn't tell you, it is just an idea