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Originally Posted by KoenG
Yes, when you don't want to work or get ill (or pretend you are) it is. And all this is being paid by the 50% of the working population.
My gross cost for my employer ~185k€/year. My net disposable income, is 52k€/year. Since I guess that in most posts here, we seem to forget that there is also about 40% social contribution to be taken in account. Then the VAT is 21%, there are additional one-shot registration taxes and yearly recurrent taxes and fuel is extra taxed to triple the end user price. Not very social, certainly when the government is sponsoring idiotic vehicles like 745e or X5 45e on the other hand. Tht's not called socialism, but communism.
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Europe's benefits are absolutely wonderful when you plan to not work so you can take advantage of them.
If you are a poor bastard who plans on working hard you are taxed to kingdom come to pay for all the benefits of the liars and crooks milking the system.
I'll take the orange man any day if he avoids the US, one of the last bastions of work-being-worth-a-damn, turning into Europe