Should nurses and doctors have 0 taxes?

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After working several manual labor jobs, we don’t work very hard in comparison. This shows you’ve always been in a bubble and don’t really have a grasp of how everyone else lives.

Of course it would be awesome to not pay taxes! But welcome to the world kid

Actually, I have worked in other industries, like literally most people have. The jobs are "physically" harder, yes. No one's going to argue people in healthcare work harder than someone working 2 min wage jobs or something, but not completely removing taxes, even reducing it to 10-15 percent max will drive more people to nursing and med school. Hell, if the government removed taxes if you were to work in rural areas, then imagine the shortage fixes in these places.
 
Actually, I have worked in other industries, like literally most people have. The jobs are "physically" harder, yes. No one's going to argue people in healthcare work harder than someone working 2 min wage jobs or something, but not completely removing taxes, even reducing it to 10-15 percent max will drive more people to nursing and med school. Hell, if the government removed taxes if you were to work in rural areas, then imagine the shortage fixes in these places.
But fundamentally you need taxes to pay for civil services...the argument is flawed from the start. There’s already a bottleneck for residency slots not for med school. Can’t do much without a residency
 
But fundamentally you need taxes to pay for civil services...the argument is flawed from the start. There’s already a bottleneck for residency slots not for med school. Can’t do much without a residency

it's easy to fix: tax others more.
 
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The only precedent I could think would be for military personnel who are deployed to a combat zone (not a "deployment" to Germany or even Korea). During my year in Iraq, I didn't pay federal or state income taxes (still paid SSA and Medicare of course). I don't think the federal government views the sacrifice of healthcare workers quite the same way, but in some pandemic hot zones maybe there should be something equivalent...?
 
I guess if you want to stick it to the man you can get on Medicaid in med school... but no you should pay taxes when you’re done. Although I wish I could opt out of social security
 
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