Quote Originally Posted by ravenmaniac4life View Post
I was thinking the same thing.

These big government programs always come with a price...which inherently restricts us from how much money we can make in the free market. Bringing up the Scandanavian countries, they tax the hell out of their people in order to provide their big government programs. The US is the most free country in the world and that's one of the reasons our tax rate is well below the 34%average for developed countries. We could probably have these programs like Australia, but we would make less (lower salary) or keep less of our own money (higher tax rate).
Ultimately it boils down to how much less. In the case of a lot of jobs I've seen (in software) , they offer competitive salary on top of a 401k match. Not all of them though.

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