Re:Google shareholders say "Go right ahead, be evil."
by lupin_sansei on Monday May 14, 2007 @12:04AM
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"I am aware I have started a thread that is drifting way off topic and can potentially get very personal"
You sound like a nice guy, I just hate these myths that the US is somehow a hellhole compared to Europe. And you failed to demonstrate why the US is less free than Europe.
"We can then talk about why I pay almost identical income taxes in the USA and in Spain"
USA: top income tax rate and the top corporate tax rate are 35 percent.
Spain: top income tax rate is 45 percent, and the top corporate tax rate is 35 percent.
Now for the jugular (from heritage.org)!
USA: Unemployment: 5.5%, $39,676 per capita
Spain: Unemployment: 11%, GDP per capita $25,047
It would seem that Americans are almost twice as wealthy as Spaniards, pay less income tax, and have more than half the unemployment.
You sound like a nice guy, I just hate these myths that the US is somehow a hellhole compared to Europe. And you failed to demonstrate why the US is less free than Europe.
"We can then talk about why I pay almost identical income taxes in the USA and in Spain"
USA: top income tax rate and the top corporate tax rate are 35 percent.
Spain: top income tax rate is 45 percent, and the top corporate tax rate is 35 percent.
Now for the jugular (from heritage.org)!
USA: Unemployment: 5.5%, $39,676 per capita
Spain: Unemployment: 11%, GDP per capita $25,047
It would seem that Americans are almost twice as wealthy as Spaniards, pay less income tax, and have more than half the unemployment.