In my opinion this is extremely unfair. To earn 2000€ after taxes and contributions to social security as a single person in germany you have to earn at least 3000€ a month and because social security is shared between employer and employee, you cost your employer closer to 3600€. So almost half of what you earn goes into taxes and contributions to social security. Over 500€ just for the pensions. And those 500€ don’t even include how much taxes are subsidizing the pension. At the same time a pensioner can get as much as you do(maybe even working full time for it), in addition to getting their pension that you are subsidizing and not pay any taxes on it.
The unfair part is that pensioners shouldn’t have to work at all, and on top of that these rules are biased for pensioners in jobs that tend to be higher-paying in the first place - most of the jobs that are practically impossible to do for pensioners because they are too physically demanding are low-paying and often have workers drop out way before pension age because of back problems and the like.
Up to this level yes, but they are not the only one that have some exceptions. Normally you can have some earning tax-free, only a way lower amount (here is about 5000€/year for example)
In my opinion this is extremely unfair. To earn 2000€ after taxes and contributions to social security as a single person in germany you have to earn at least 3000€ a month and because social security is shared between employer and employee, you cost your employer closer to 3600€. So almost half of what you earn goes into taxes and contributions to social security. Over 500€ just for the pensions. And those 500€ don’t even include how much taxes are subsidizing the pension. At the same time a pensioner can get as much as you do(maybe even working full time for it), in addition to getting their pension that you are subsidizing and not pay any taxes on it.
The unfair part is that pensioners shouldn’t have to work at all, and on top of that these rules are biased for pensioners in jobs that tend to be higher-paying in the first place - most of the jobs that are practically impossible to do for pensioners because they are too physically demanding are low-paying and often have workers drop out way before pension age because of back problems and the like.
Yep… why not redistribute the tax load, make everything up to 2000€ tax free, increase taxes for higher income levels (>10k for example) drastically
Up to this level yes, but they are not the only one that have some exceptions. Normally you can have some earning tax-free, only a way lower amount (here is about 5000€/year for example)
Only if that’s your only income. And nobody can live from 5.000€ per year