Marc Stibane

Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

> spamfalle2@arcor.de (Marc Stibane) wrote in
> news:1jon7mb.1a7gyp71izmzjuN@marc.my-fqdn.de:
>
> > In Germany, we pay about 70 EuroCent fuel tax - per litre. Plus 19% VAT
> > on the end price of the bill.
> > So currently 1 litre of 95 octan fuel is about Ï1.50, which computes to
> > more than 7.50$ per gallon.
> Isn't socialized medicine wonderful?!

If you mean our health system, that's not getting any tax money.
But the old-age pensions are partly financed from taxes...

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In a world without walls and fences,
who needs windows and gates?

Larry

spamfalle2@arcor.de (Marc Stibane) wrote in
news:1jop883.eg6gf2dtt5xhN@marc.my-fqdn.de:

> If you mean our health system, that's not getting any tax money.
> But the old-age pensions are partly financed from taxes...
>
>

Ours are called Social Security and date back to the Depression and New
Deal of FDR in the 1930's. There are FICA taxes on everyone's wages that
"pay" for it, but the government regularly "borrows" money from it for
politicians' pet projects.

SS (ours not Germany's...(c;]) is fairly solvent if the politicians would
keep their grubby hands off it. The rest of the government is horribly
bankrupt and only adding more fake dollars to the computer's fake balance
sheets keeps it afloat.