Most people don’t hate taxes

[justdimin]

People wants to see the manifestation of their taxes practically, if you're paying tax and your government is working I believe that you wouldn't mind, even if you think that some taxes are rip-off by the government but the government infrastructures on ground will calm you mind. Reverse is the case in many countries where there are hardly any basic amenities yet government is taxing the citizens you naturally wouldn't be happy to pay you taxes, you will only be paying your taxes because of the penalties of defaults.

You will wonder what many underdeveloped countries with mineral resources are doing with tax collected from their hardworking citizens where the economy is not working. No good roads, inadequate security, no steady electricity supply and the rest yet the citizens are paying taxes, it is very unfair.

This is a reasonable request, if you are paying taxes, then you want to see that back. But people do not "see" things that are quite obvious, like the soldier that fights for your country gets paid from your taxes, but you do not consider that, firefighter? your tax, police? your tax, ministry? your tax.

Basically, tax isn't just building roads, getting hospitals, schools, bridges and so forth, it's also the salaries of all the people that work for the government, from president, to janitor of some office. So you do not "see" it all the time, but it's there, every single month.

[Synchronice]

Most people can tolerate taxes because they understand governments need revenue which is understandable.

What really frustrates them is realizing that no matter how hard they work, their salary keeps losing the race against real life. You get a small raise and for one moment it feels like progress… then rent increases, food gets more expensive, transport goes up, and suddenly that raise means almost nothing again.

That’s why many people today are earning more money than they did years ago, yet somehow still feel very financially weaker.

If you come to think of it, I believe the biggest part of it is psychologcal. People can tolerate paying into a system when they believe hard work will eventually create stability but once salaries stop translating into actual progress, frustration quietly starts building.

That’s also why more people are moving beyond traditonal saving and looking for assets they believe can protect value long term because many no longer trust income alone to keep up.

What's your opinion

It depends on the country whether people can tolerate taxes or not. In Germany, we pay almost half of our salary into taxes but people definitely tolerate it because we have a free education, free healthcare, pension insurance, unemployment insurance, long-term care insurance, accident insurance. For many people, this level of stability worth almost half of the salary for many people because people aren't good at planning, the majority of the population lives from paycheck to paycheck, so they prefer this tax rate.

Salaries were not meant to beat the inflation and enrich people. If you want to become rich, you have to run your own business where you set the salary and other rules.