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You think thats bad? Try Sweden! Of my total wages of roughly US$100,000, after deducting all taxes, including property and value added tax which is 25% on everything I buy, even food(!), I have 25,000 left that hasn't gone into prime minister Persson's pocket. Thats right, 75% gone in tax!
Ofcourse, I don't have to pay for medical expenses but rather can stand in year long queues with the masses for a simple x-ray (Therefor I've had to get private medical insurance- Pay twice for medical, yipee!) and the State will give me a generous pension of roughly 10% of my final wage, just enough to buy monthly doses of prune juice and hemorroid gel (so called "Pilots Punch"), so I guess I'm getting alot for my tax dollars (Kronor)
I'll still be in massive debt at age 70 and complain of the fact that my career tax dollars could have paid off my house 15 times in cash!
The most unsettling thing about this is that it's just the way the Swedes want it! In the past 70 years the socialist tax evangelists have been in power in all but 6 of them.
Where's that well paying offshore job? Gotta get outta here!
