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Unless you are wealthy, if you think life is to expensive you should ask for more taxes, not less.
The issue is not your net income, but wealth redistribution and solidarity.
Except for the part where they just make more tanks instead of give people insulin or whatever
If you can, move to a first world country.
If not: revolution.
The United States is a first world country, and the parent comment applies here as well.
That was the not-so-subtle dig at the bullshit the people of the USA put up with.
Only the rich get the benefit of the country's wealth and power.