Taxes, drug addicts and homeless people: What strained the Russian in the USA

3 May 2019 21

Life in the United States of America, the richest country in the world, has its own specifics. Our compatriot named Alexei, who moved to Seattle, decided to share his view on her. He successfully settled down and has his own business for conducting entertaining quests. The new American life of a Russian is quite satisfied, but there are moments that annoy him greatly.

Bastards

As you know, in the US there is a pretty decent unemployment benefit, which you can not only exist, but also live. Unfortunately, not only pensioners or single mothers are actively using it, but also adult men who refuse to work in principle. In the States you can find entire neighborhoods where no one works, but sits on benefits. Such a contingent often spends free time on all kinds of crime, such as drug trafficking and so on. Naturally, this way of life for them is paid from taxes of the middle class, which cannot but annoy many.

Requisitions

Taxes in the US are high, in fact, 3-4 months a year, the average American works for the state and for those guys who are on welfare. But they may be periodically supplemented by regional taxes imposed by states. So, Alexey says that by the decision of the majority of residents of his district, a special tax was introduced to organize the movement of an additional electric train. Then it turned out that for this you would have to pay the state 1% of the cost of each car. Considering that almost every American has a car, and not one, and not everyone uses electric trains, this subsequently caused dissatisfaction with the new collection.

Drugs

There are many of them in the USA and it’s quite simple to buy. The state takes care of drug addicts, but does so by going too far. So, they build special centers where a person can comfortably “expand” with a clean needle so as not to get infected from a dirty somewhere in the gateway. They are building similar centers in all areas, including decent ones. And immediately the addicts begin to roam among the good yards, stealing everything that lies badly.

American homeless people are not like our Siphon and Beard. These are, as a rule, drug addicts and just mentally unhealthy people. They behave inappropriately and very aggressively. So, such a contingent is the main visitors to centers for drug addicts.

All Prescription

It’s impossible to just go to the pharmacy and buy aspirin, as we have in Russia, in the USA. First you need to go to the doctor to write a prescription. Admission will be paid. If your glasses, for example, are broken, you cannot buy new ones directly. The chain will be this: therapist - optometrist - shop. Naturally, each of the doctors will have to pay.

In general, in the USA, expensive medical insurance, expensive car insurance, expensive Internet and mobile communications. Good food is expensive too, and bad food is affordable. Therefore, a poor American eating in fast foods is visible from afar.

The Americans

By themselves, they are very relaxed, polite and smiling. This is called “being nice” and is nice when dealing with strangers. However, the true attitude will be hidden behind a beautiful mask and may turn out to be completely different, which is unusual for people from the post-Soviet space.

American women

Alexei believes that American girls outwardly seriously inferior to Russian. Therefore, many Russian guys, once in the United States, prefer to meet with their compatriots.

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Monster_Fat

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3 May 2019 14: 19

Point by point:

1) Freeloaders. There is such a thing. But this is not a minus, but a plus. This shows the state's concern for those who not only physically cannot work, but also simply cannot work morally or do not want to. By the way, in the United States, the "moral and psychological" reason for not being able to find a job or not wanting to look for it is considered a valid reason for receiving benefits. In addition, the so-called "average Americans" do not oppose such "freeloaders", since they are well aware that they themselves may one day find themselves without work and livelihood.

2) Exactions. Not at all true. In the United States there are minimum amounts taxed at the minimum tax rates of 9%, then on an increasing basis, with the 9% rate remaining at the minimum, and everything else is taxed in steps. Thus, a tax per year with, for example, $ 56000, will total no more than 16% in aggregate, plus state tax (6-9%), plus social payments. Total leaves about 25%. I do not think this is a big payout. In addition, the United States has developed a tax refund system, that is, the spent on education, treatment, insurance, self-care for children and children, the maintenance of children and the disabled, etc. are deducted from the total taxable mass. An outrage of 1% tax, which, as I understand it, will be included in the price at buying and selling vehicles is just ridiculous. In addition, I would draw attention to the fact that the introduction of this tax was DISCUSSED with the population, which is not done at all in Russia. In Russia, both the country's leadership and local authorities do not care about the population. In addition, public self-government is very developed in the United States, and the rights of public organizations are equated with state ones, and not as in Russia, there are no rights, everything has been left to officials.

3) Drugs. Not quite right. In the USA, drugs have the same availability as in Russia. No one will offer you them in a taxi or on the streets, as shown in the films. As in Russia, drugs are distributed in clubs and public entertainment venues. Homeless people in the USA are different, as in Russia. The only thing is that there really are more of them, they live on the streets in boxes or just in sleeping bags, near their carts with belongings. Moreover, it is forbidden to touch their police if there are no complaints about them from anyone. Personal freedom in the USA is not an empty phrase. In addition, in the USA it is almost impossible to die of hunger. There are many different charitable organizations where absolutely anyone can eat and carry out personal hygiene, in addition, in supermarkets, products, after the expiration date, are not destroyed, but taken out in special containers where anyone can pick them up at their own risk. Even well-off people take products from these containers.

4) All according to the prescription. Yes and no. As for aspirin - not true. Simple medicines like Advill, etc. for fevers, pain, fever, back pain, arthritis, arthrosis, insect bites, allergies, various vitamins, etc. are sold absolutely freely and everywhere, in the same Wallmart there are several racks with this. There are also shelves with glasses with different diopters, take and buy without any prescription. Other prescription drugs, yes. However, prescription drugs are paid from social insurance or deducted from the total taxable income, as well as all kinds of insurance. So the Americans are not particularly worried about this. Yes spent, but then you get a tax deduction.
Food in the United States is easy to find for every taste and budget, and the so-called "green line" food does not differ much in price from the usual one without this label.

5) Americans. Americans are smiling and polite - yes, but not all and not always. In the United States, the cult of success and money, and Carnegie is taught in their schools. Hence their some self-confidence and disregard for other people's opinions. A characteristic feature of Americans is "narrow-mindedness" in views and professional interests. They are very literate in one area, where they have the greatest application of their strength and interest, but absolutely ignorant in everything else.

6) Americans. Mostly scary and greasy. Since childhood, many American women have a tendency to be overweight, and this is due to the availability of all sorts of delicacies, sugar-sweetened drinks, etc. Americans are constantly eating, and then like running, "doing sports", then eating again and running again. And yes, they really love Coca-Cola.
1. gorbunov.vladisl
  
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  3 May 2019 15: 38
  
  Point by point:
  
  There is only one point.
  The whole world should stop working for the USA.
  Then their "well-being" will burst like a soap bubble.
2. Victor N
  
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  3 May 2019 18: 30
  
  I understood you correctly: are the residents of the United States more conscientious citizens than the residents of Russia? ("levies").
  In my environment, everyone regularly pays taxes, mindful of the need for a strong state power and a powerful army. After all, you can earn a little more, because "about a rainy day" needs to be postponed. And no one dreams of immediately, upon reaching retirement age, quitting work and living on one pension.
  I’m talking about: maybe some of our cohabitants across the territory should change their attitude to the state, if not to a stranger, but to OWN? After all, it was created, built and cared for not by some abstract ANCESTORS, but by our dear great-grandfathers.
  Attitude towards the state is a test for "friend or foe".
3. Marzhecki
  
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  3 May 2019 19: 44
  
  Thanks for the clarifications. Each America has its own ...
4. Oleg RB
  
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  3 May 2019 21: 07
  
  Thank you for the informative comments. Often authors here write such a gag that they clutch their heads.
5. Zhenya Gurdjieff
  
  +1
  
  29 June 2019 22: 23
  
  The main thing, of course, is to insert the phrase "in Russia the state does not care about the population", well, offset. And here the other day the state did not give a damn about it, having increased the monthly payments for children to 1,5 years, if I am not mistaken, to 10 thousand. That's so spit ...
Port

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3 May 2019 15: 18

Rather, they are annoyed by clowns who climb there like flies to shit, and then whine that everything turned out to be different from what they show in Hollywood.
1. gorbunov.vladisl
  
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  3 May 2019 15: 35
  
  ..and then they whine that everything turned out to be different from how they show in Hollywood ..
  
  I agree with you.
Sergey Latyshev

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3 May 2019 18: 50

Every day is not Sunday. It’s just that there was no socialism with its free mediocre education, medicine, etc.
Everything is private. But something from there crowds returning (let the aged pros) or indigenous (albeit displeased) is not visible.
Marzhecki

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4 May 2019 06: 24

Quote: Oleg RB
Thank you for the informative comments. Often authors here write such a gag that they clutch their heads.

for example?
Marzhecki

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4 May 2019 07: 41

Quote: Oleg RB
Thank you for the informative comments. Often authors here write such a gag that they clutch their heads.

Do you understand the difference between "gag" and retelling someone else's subjective opinion about life in the United States?
1. Victor N
  
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  4 May 2019 17: 11
  
  Those who want to "dump" - nothing to keep. And there is no need. I can’t imagine a real Russian who wants to leave Russia. Strangers are leaving, let them ...
ioann.grozny

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5 May 2019 00: 37

Aspirin, of course, is nonsense: it is easy to buy it almost everywhere, including in any grocery store, and quite cheap. Antibiotics are different, but medically reasonable. Americans, like American women, are different, although, of course, most are obsessed with money. By the way, in the photo before the article it is not Seattle, but Nashville (which is a couple of thousand kilometers to the east). The tall building in the upper left corner is known as the 'Batman'.
DPN

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5 May 2019 08: 19

I ran there, even if it lives in tension. If only on the battlefield did not have to face it.
Dimon without iPhone

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5 May 2019 15: 21

Song from the movie "Kolobakh":

In Modern America, life is not easy
Hopelessness inflation, se_x, poverty
On TV every ba_da
Just trouble
/.../
And against the background of such intolerable ordeals
New York unemployed short of medication
And when your head hurts
Only gashish koka_in and grass are at hand ...
Dimon without iPhone

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5 May 2019 15: 22

Another cry of a pseudo-patriot ... By type: our Russian "shit" smells better!
Marzhecki

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6 May 2019 09: 22

Quote: Dimon without iPhone
Another cry of a pseudo-patriot ... By type: our Russian "shit" smells better!

First of all, why a scream?
Secondly, why a pseudo-patriot? Do you personally know me, the author, in order to draw such conclusions?
Thirdly, somewhere in the text something was said about what is better in Russia than in the USA?
In fact, you just commented a lot about yourself in your commentary.
bobba94

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8 May 2019 21: 49

Several people worked in our company. What can I say. He remembered the song: "The Englishman will smash both the Frenchman and the Spaniard. Yankee Doodle will come up, he will lay all three of them with his finger." And in life they are quite normal people.
damage

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23 May 2019 14: 03

For the most part, another propaganda lies. Something none of the states is especially torn.
Zhenya Gurdjieff

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29 June 2019 22: 26

Quote: Victor N
Those who want to "dump" - nothing to keep. And there is no need. I can’t imagine a real Russian who wants to leave Russia. Strangers are leaving, let them ...

Similarly, preferably with a one-way ticket, without the possibility of a refund.
Nikolay Malyugin

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8 July 2019 07: 21

First you need to extinguish emotions, and then talk. I think one should not feel sorry for the worker who feeds the "freeloaders". First, the worker ranks much higher on the social ladder. And secondly, these "freeloaders" were also once workers and employees. First, a person loses his job and his wife. After a long search for work and the loss of housing, degradation occurs. Although in America there is no slogan "He who does not work, he does not eat," all the same, for most of the population, work remains in the first place.