[Leica] Fuji X-Pro1 - Jim

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the effective tax rate in the US if you properly count everything is also
close to 50% !

the main difference between the US and western europe is that there they
spend most of the money on their own people.

here we give it away to private contractors and war profiteers with no
accountability at all.

the US government garnishes the wages of citizens who owe $2000
and yet various Inspectors General keep issuing reports saying $50 million
or $100 million is unaccounted for and that's that.

if all the tax money collected in the US was actually spent inside the US,
this place would be like western europe too
with the ability to pay for college for the kids.

in order to keep the theft of the public exchequer going a lot of effort is
expended in mocking western europe and brainwashing the citizens
so they don't ask why their standards have to fall and where all their
money is really going.

after all it's not like americans don't work hard or keep taking long
vacations.......

bharani




Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:02:11 -0500
From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji X-Pro1 - Jim
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Not too sure about the free part. According to my BNA country portfolio
on Finland, the marginal tax rate (national, local, municipal and church
taxes) hits about 50% on income between ?38,000 and 66,000 and is over
55% on income in excess of ?66,000. Then there is a VAT. I'm not going
to complain on April 15 this year!

Ken