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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Sweden has the same problem as UK and most other europeean countries. The actual price per litre here is appr $1.50 or about $6 per gallon. Of this is about 70-80% different taxes, energy tax, enviroment tax, sales tax etc, all added one by one... that is they actually take the saleprice, add salestax of 25% on that, then on the sum you add the next tax percentage and so on... No wonder it skyrockets! The actual gasstation needs to charge about $0.30 per litre, then it's $1.20 added in taxes... (yes this is times 3.8 for gallons...) So actually, the gas stations doesn't really make a lot of money from gas, they make money from all the rest they sell. The government is making money though, a shitload of it! <rant-mode-on> Just to hammer the point in further, here in sweden the average working joe is taxed between 67 and 75% of his total yearly income when all taxes are included. First the company pays 32-38% of the total salary in employer-tax (this money you never see, it's a cost for the employer that comes right from your salary), then an additional 31-32% in income-tax. Then an extra 5% in state income tax if you are over a certain threshold. All this is automatically deducted before you get you hands on your salary. Then, after all this you pay 25% sales tax on everything you buy, certain things like gas and electricity has enviromental and energy taxes on top of that. If you by any chance manage to buy a house for your taxed money, you are taxed in advance a yearly property tax based on what you might get if you sell the house (to be paid with taxed money of course). however, should you sell the house you must pay taxes on your profit. The value of you house is also included in your net worth which you are taxed for. Your car will cost you a yearly vehicletax based on size and engine volume. Lo and behold, you managed to save money... Fine, lets add tax on the interest the money makes for you, plus a "capital tax" of 30% So, you lived your life and you want to leae your house to your kids as you move to a retirement home, now they has to pay an inheritance tax, if they can't afford it they will probably have to sell the house you gave them... And the list goes on, and on, and on... And don't even start me up on if you want to trade stocks... That's when it get's complicated... So complicated that they actually had to change the tax rules for trading since some ppl actually had to pay 120% in taxes on their stock sales... If I want to start a company I have to pay appr 75% in taxes on each earned $ before I can start paying expenses and take a salary from the company (simply put that is)... I probably forgot a bunch of examples but I think this is enough to illustrate the point. Now, what do we get for all these taxes... - A yearly national debt of appr $150 billion (and we are only 9.000.000 citizens) - An immense amount of money paid from the government to citisens that are unemployed, long term sick, state pensions. Generally to ppl that can't afford to pay for everything themselves (wonder why)... - Roads that has been free will be taxed - Hospital care, if you are healthy enough to wait for many months you can get any disese treated virtually for free (this is actually very good hospitals) otherwise you have to pay for your own care. - Downsized police force - Firedepartments - a 20% unemployment rate for 18-25 years old, 8-10% for all depending on how you count. - Small and mediunm - Large vital companies moving to other countries and the list goes on... <rant-mode-off> Now I don't really have a problem with paying taxes in general, but there has to be reason involved when you setup the system behnd it. The way this system is setup we might just as well give the government everything and get food & rent tickets in return... As you see, gas prices aren't the biggest problem here even if it's stupidly expensive. I firmly believe that there is an underlying structural problem generally in europe whern it comes to how a country should be financed. /Dan [url=http://www.dmsproject.com/] [img]http://www.dmsproject.com/gif/newSiggie.gif[/img] [/url] [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/shownode.php?sortby=rating&id=260]{cell 260}[/url] [url=http://dmsproject.blogspot.com/]{Blog}[/url] -{" Computer: ?As a Quantum Supercomputer I take advantage of Zeno?s paradox? C: ?Imagine a photon that must travel from A to B. The photon travels half the distance to B. From its new location it travels half the new distance. And again, it travels half that new distance.? C: ?It continually works to get to B but it never arrives.? Human: ?So you keep getting closer to finishing your task but never actually do?? C: ?Hey, coders make a living doing that?? ?}- [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/582]DmS[/url] on 05-02-2006 17:09)[/small] Loading...
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