Expensive or not - that is the question...

Originally Posted by Kuba80BJ

The reason why I have been ignoring your posts for months (and I will still do) is very simple. You show absolutely NO RESPECT to anything I or in fact most of the people on this board say. If someone agrees with your opinions and thoughts you are nice to them. But as soon as someone disagrees with you instantly you jump into that person’s throat (especially me), and become arrogant, throwing insults, swearing at them and throwing f**ks and bull***ts all over the place, you shout them down and attack them. I know this might surprise you, but that’s NOT how mature, well-mannered or well-educated grownups talk. Try talking like that to your parents, friends, boss or customers at work and you will learn really quickly how they will react. But more importantly most of the things that you usually say are NOT justified (apart from BJ history and statistics related). You think that ONLY YOU know everything best but the sad truth is that you don’t look further than the top of your nose and your huge ego. You want to be the leader, but in fact you act like a despotic dictator.
In this thread in only few posts you managed to insult me and my whole nation several times, but I will not let you treat me like s**t. This was not the first time you tried to prove that you know what Poland’s like better than people living here, and you failed again. Surprisingly for you it turns out I was right. Moreover this time it even showed your lack of knowledge about global economics and even your home continent. You can find economic proof for that, given by SamoboraRocks (and actually there’s more on the web if you google it).
I think you owe me and the whole Poland an apology, but probably the words like “I apologise” or “I’m sorry” are not in use in your vocabulary, at least I have not seen you saying it even once on this board. This would mean that “The Better-Than-Bon Jovi The Almighty King of JT Sebastiaan Supersonic” makes mistakes and is not flawless, which would hurt your spotless image of the “biggest know-it-all” on this board.
HAVE A NICE DAY!!! (BJ style)

Originally Posted by Kuba80BJ

Brian, you are right, these numbers for UK, USA, Ireland and Australia don’t take taxation, health care and pension into account, as I don’t know how much that would be in those countries. That’s why I had to work on ‘before tax’ numbers. And I made it clear in the post. Actually I was hoping that people living in those countries could give us an estimate numbers about that (tax, health care, pension).

But I did put info how much it is in Poland. Before it’s 7,87PLN/h. After tax, health care and pension only 5,90PLN/h stays in Polish wallet. So to make it clear, the government takes about 25% from us for all of that!!! Tax is 18% but all those other things are extremely expensive too and take about 7% more. I really doubt that they take so much from those living in the mentioned countries. I am not even mentioning all the social benefits you get from your governments, which are way bigger than ours.

So actually even more money stay in your wallets after taxation and the difference between our countries would be even bigger I am afraid. That is the sad truth (for us of course).

Originally Posted by Elvistico

Try living here in belgium ... your salary is taxed for close to 50%
Imagine earning 3000 euro / month before tax leaves you just a little over 1500 euro's in your wallet (well actually a little over 1600 euros)
--> That said, we al know we have a great social security system in Belgium so we don't have to worry about that too much as opposed to the US where this is all in hands of private insurance companies. (And yet they don't understand Obama is doing great things for them with his social security plans)