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interesting reading ,but compared to the u.k you still have it very easy ,we might pay less for our internet (thats also debateable ) BUT we get taxed on everything FAR FAR and above what you do .we pay income tax on earnings ,v.a.t of 20% on everything we buy bar food ,around 80% tax on fuel diesel or petrol ,road tax on ours cars (variable) but the money is not spent on road repairs ,council tax on our homes ,water rates (tax) for our water .we have very little in the way of jobs for our rising generations as various goverments have thrown open the flood gates of cheap immigrant labour .even as a pensioner the money i paid into my pension fund which i was taxed on at the time is now taxed again as income .
i would love to swop places with you but i don't think either of us would survive these days
p.s and the golds all sold mine and the goverments
Actually not sure that's true. In the US now a newly qualified airline pilot earns $21K a year. And that's a well paid job. For youngsters growing up and starting out there now many of what would have been well paid blue or even white collar jobs are now breadline or don't exist at all. And the safety nets the UK still have, (National Health service etc) are not there.