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It's also Americans getting to see that not only are things here bad, they're so bad people in other countries literally have trouble believing it.
I knew US healthcare was fucked up, but I had my moment of disbelief when a colleague with dual citizenship tried to explain to me what Americans go through to pay their taxes. I literally thought he was lying to me because surely every state in the world wants to make it as easy as possible for people who want to pay their taxes to actually do so. But the US is exceptional I guess.
Nha, in Mexico we follow a similar system, except for some people the tax filing is every month. So they spend 3 or 4 days a month paying their taxes. I am an unregistered lumpen, so I don't pay income or payroll tax. And this it doesn't affect me. This is the situation for most people. But I tried to start a small business a few years ago, and the process to register for taxes was so bizantine I gave up. Mind you, this was during the pena nieto regime when they came up with a simplified mode for small business, it was way worse before, and I hear it is much more complicated now.