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Subject: Re: I Feel Old
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 06:13:36 +1100
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"Peter Flass" <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:1188122294.474034525.378778.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org...
> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2016-01-08, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> [25 lines snipped]
>>
>>>> I am constantly surprised by the tax burden of these leftopondians.
>>>> $6k median property tax? I pay ~$450, and I am well above medium in
>>>> my property, and the municipality is very tax-happy.
>>>>
>>>> Or is NJ such an outlier?
>>>
>>> Tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum.  Governments are going to get their money
>>> somehow.  How much does VAT add up to in Norway?  How much is your tax 
>>> on
>>> gasoline?  You have to look at the total tax burden.
>>
>> My parents have lived in the USA for 35 years. I live in the UK. Overall,
>> their tax burden would be lower here. We have discussed this at length, 
>> since
>> they can choose where to have some of their income taxed, and to our 
>> surprise,
>> the answer was "in the UK."
>>
>
> My point was that there are lots of kins ofbtaxes, and places that are low
> in, say income tax, might be ghigher in sales tax, property tax, or
> gasoline tax.

And some are dramatically lower in the total tax take than others.