But it also doesn’t include the benefits you gain from those taxes.

There’s your net income, and your disposable income at the end, after you paid for insurance, food, medicine, and all the other things you need to survive. Looking at the net income instead of the disposable one makes the US seem, very clearly, much better off.

However, as soon as you start looking into disposable income and a true, “net net” of how much money I can save and spend on god knows what, the US starts falling behind FAST.

As a result, most US Americans tend to cope using that nice big number and conveniently forget the real number at the end.

But do keep in mind this is general and doesn’t always hold true. As much as I may dislike the US right now, the US really is more like 50 tiny countries than one big one, so results vary depending on where you look. Especially along the Democrat-Republican divide.

Thanks for the tip on a service center! I’ll make sure to look for one while finding thrift shops that might have sowing machines near me!

Thanks!

Perfect, thanks a lot!

From this and the other responses it seem like old beats new is a good rule of thumb on this.

I’ll check some thrift shops or similar places, and if I can’t find anything I’ll look into getting a Heavy Duty!

Thanks a lot for the help!

Don’t have anyone I know trying to get rid of one, but will take a look in some thrift shops! Thanks for the brand names and help!