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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

>From what month and year was that written.  We have the highest corporate 
>taxes in the industrialized world, and the dems want to take us back to some 
>of the highest capital gains taxes in the world.. 

 The europeans are not real happy about the future of those wonderful "added  
social services".  It is almost impossible to buy physical gold in Europe 
right now, because europeans don't believe the social programs can continue.  
And, they are probably correct .........bobford

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--- On Wed, 10/29/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Tax burden perspective
> To: "Homestead" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 3:21 PM
> My perspective on income taxes has always been that if my
> income tax  
> load was high that meant my income was high and I was happy
> about  
> that. We are in control of our tax load; as homesteaders we
> all have  
> the opportunity to live on modest income that incurs little
> or no  
> income tax burden. If most people acted thusly the income
> tax would be  
> abolished.
> 
> But, truth be told, we Americans have a very low income tax
> bite:
> 
> "For a family with one wage-earner and two children,
> only Iceland and  
> Ireland have a lower income tax burden than the U.S.,
> according to the  
> most recent data for 2005.
> 
> "At the top, Sweden, Turkey, France and Poland impose
> the biggest tax  
> burdens on families, but in most of those countries
> families get added  
> social services, such as secure pensions and health care.
> 
> "Citizens in these other countries are paying more
> money, but they are  
> getting more back, in terms of social programs, said
> Christopher  
> Heady, head of tax policy for the Paris-based think tank
> Organization  
> for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD. Its a
> choice the  
> electorate makes."
> 
> http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Taxes/P148855.asp
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