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Originally Posted by tblake
Norway is a very different country because it has so much oil. It also has extremely high taxes for all goods and a high income tax.
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Taxes probably aren't much higher than here if you do the math. And besides you don't need much money left over after taxes anyways.
You take ven the poorest here some guy making minimum wage pays 10% of his income in Income and FICA taxes, he pays sales taxes when every he goes to the store. He pays gas taxes when he buy gas. His utilities, cable, phone, etc all have various taxes on them. There are other taxes like when you renew your drivers licence or car registration. Except they call them "fees" it's a TAX. Probably dozens of other if I sat down and thought it over. At the end of the day he is probably paying 40% of his income in taxes. WTF is he getting for it? If he gets sick he can't go to the doctor. Public transportation in the US either sucks or is non existant, schools suck etc etc