> Owner Health Insurance: -$15k
WTF? Who pays $15k PER YEAR for health insurance? That's nuts. In most countries USD$15k would pay for healthcare for 2 or 3 people for their entire lives.
WTF? Who pays $15k PER YEAR for health insurance? That's nuts. In most countries USD$15k would pay for healthcare for 2 or 3 people for their entire lives.
So sure $15k is ridiculous to pay for health insurance, but in the US, its the cheap option for a family.
For a brief period I lived in Virginia and had no medical coverage through my employer. The legal minimum coverage was $1,400 / month for my family of four... and it was basically worthless; I would have had to have paid out something like $40k in a single year for medical services before I would have broken even.
is more than they make in their entire lives.
Trying to compare US COL to "most countries"
And if you wanna only look at western countries that's obviously demonstrably false.
Whatever people pay as part of the healthcare tax is gonna come out to about $15K for someone who is making $100K in most EU countries.