Clarification

[victor_szasz]

Class warefare has been an ongoing popular phrase to toss around in recent times. However, it seems limited as it's largely only being used in one particular direction. The rich want their taxes cut while the not so rich they'd rather pay more taxes. The rich accuse class warfare to any who tell them this is wrong, or suggests that they need to pay

Comments

[jaelle_n_gilla]

I'm not so sure I get the full extent of the current use of the term, but I can tell you this

[jaelle_n_gilla]

Well, yes and no. Health care in Germany is funded by a mandatory health insurance, not taxes. Taxes go extra

[jaelle_n_gilla]

As far as I know all our health insurance companies are privately held (read: industry, not gov). I'm not sure about the one big one AOK where all the ones get stuck in who are unemployed or don't fit anywhere else. That one is cross-sponsored by all the private ones. They pay a certain percentage of everything they get from their customers to AOK