Income tax = 50k/yr. example
Japan = 3,300,000 JPY - 6,950,000 JPY (26,000 USD - 54,000 USD/yr.) 20% tax bracket
USA = $50,000/yr = 22% tax bracket.
Sales tax
Japan = 10%
USA (varies by state)= 4 - 7.5% (only a couple states have no sales tax in 2023)
We were at 5% for years, then 8%, now 10% to cover boomers.
You pay so much more on rent and healthcare, it's not even close
Rent
Many americans in major cities rent10 - 13 meters square closets in shared living arrangements for $500 - 1000/mo.
In Tokyo we rent 17 - 30 meters square full apartmentsfor $400 - $600/mo.
Healthcare
Japan = I payed $56/mo. when working full time, making the national average for salary, no deductible and stupid cheap prices for everything from surgery to bloodwork, imaging. With superior health outcomes in almost every category over america.
america = The average cost of purchasing your own health insurance is US$456 per month. Average size of a deductible is US$1,644 for individuals. For that you have the most medical bankruptcies globally, more homeless per capita than Russia or China, and inferior health outcomes compared to universal healthcare countries. And covid proved america is a really a third world country with a fake Gucci belt. americans AVOID healthcare to save on paying a deductible.
Nobody flinches in Japan for anything. We just go. Don't even need to think about cost.
THAT is what wasting trillions of dollars of failed endless wars gets you. It will only get worse for you all after wasting billions more in Ukraine.
america began this proxy war with Russia by violently overthrowing the elected govt of Ukraine (opposing democracy) and are now gleefully stealing your tax dollars to spill Russian and Ukrainian blood.
When you are blowing money on inferior healthcare outcomes, overpriced rent, and higher taxes, remember the a** whooping you got here... and feel stupid.