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Originally Posted by Poochie
WoW, this thread was pretty eye-opening; I had no idea the tax rate was this costly, in parts of Europe.. I honestly assumed the opposite, being that most are liberal leaning.. 🤷🏻
And I thought I had it bad here in the US at 8%..
I was thinking about becoming an online gospel pastor, just to be exempted paying sales tax, on my next car but seeing how proportionally lower it is to the ROW, I might just throw a bone at Uncle Sam and pay it..  |
Very hard to compare such things. Yes, the tax rate is much higher, but it pays (amongst other things) the pension and health care. In the end the overall cost of living is pretty much the same compared to the US. We pay more taxes upfront, but you have to pay your own health insurance etc. It's just more what you would call "socialist" (it isn't "socialist", it's social, but this is not the right place to discuss such things).