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submitted 6 months ago by pow to c/newzealand

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[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

$21 per NZ citizen to pay for that. That is not pocket change considering its just one of MANY costs required to run a society.

That includes every child, pensioners, unemployed, disabled person and others. The real cost per tax payer is MUCH higher.

How's the public healthcare in NZ? Public transport?

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ok, so $113m is approx $1.60 per person per year.

Or if only looking at the ~3.5m tax payers, then it is ~$2.70 per person per year.

[–] pow 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't like how you try to make the numbers harder to understand. It's really easy:

$113,000,000 / 5.2 million people = $21 per person.

[–] absGeekNZ 1 points 6 months ago