"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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>   I believe that in many countries (such as the US) a 60% tax sounds
> completely incredible and outrageous. But it happens here.
>

It maxes out at 45% here. Though that's just income tax and doesn't include
VAT (14%), road tax (I think 5% on all petrol/diesel) and the assorted other
involuntary drains.

Seeing that we don't have free schooling, public hospitals are a mess, the
roads are falling apart and so's the electricity grid, I have no idea where
all that money actually goes.

Welcome to the 3rd world. Where the rich support the politicians' expensive
holidays and mansions and the poor still starve.

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Gail Shaw <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> Seeing that we don't have free schooling, public hospitals are a mess, the
> roads are falling apart and so's the electricity grid, I have no idea where
> all that money actually goes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Graph_%28military_spenders%29.jpg

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Gail Shaw escribió:
> VAT (14%)

VAT is 21% in Argentina. >_<

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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> Gail Shaw <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> > Seeing that we don't have free schooling, public hospitals are a mess,
the
> > roads are falling apart and so's the electricity grid, I have no idea
where
> > all that money actually goes.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Graph_%28military_spenders%29.jpg

And it's not the millitary.
No big surprise, we've got no one to fight. Millitary's not even patroling
the borders anymore (Job belongs to the already understaffed police service)

p.s. I'm not in the USA.

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"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote in message
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> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Graph_%28military_spenders%29.jpg

31st place!

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>> VAT (14%)
> 
> VAT is 21% in Argentina. >_<

And it recently went up from 16% to 19% here in Germany.

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Gail Shaw <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> p.s. I'm not in the USA.

  I apologize. I don't know why I got the impression that you were.

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scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> And it recently went up from 16% to 19% here in Germany.

  At least you pay only that VAT when you buy a car. Here in Finland you
pay something like 98% in taxes when you buy a car (which means you have
to pay almost double of the car's original price).

  (OTOH it's not as bad as in Denmark, where they have to pay something
like 210% in taxes when they buy a car.)

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>  At least you pay only that VAT when you buy a car. Here in Finland you
> pay something like 98% in taxes when you buy a car (which means you have
> to pay almost double of the car's original price).

Why doesn't everyone in Finland go to do another EU country to buy their car 
then?  Heck, lots of people in England do this even though the difference is 
at most just a couple of thousand pounds and you have all the hassle with 
buying a right hand drive car in a left hand drive country.

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On 4 Apr 2008 03:54:58 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>Gail Shaw <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
>> p.s. I'm not in the USA.
>
>  I apologize. I don't know why I got the impression that you were.

It's hard to tell colonials apart, sometimes. <g>
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     Stephen

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