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Re: Good morning girls!!!!   Gas prices still on the rise $3.95 a gallon in the Windy city swimsalot New
Re: FYI - Gasoline prices around the World.... axr6 New
Re: What is the proportion of taxes that we pay compared to the... rroberts New
Date: May 03 2008, 22:34 GMT
From: axr6

	...they use and divide those taxes differently. I recently watched a CNN segment regarding this issue and, according to that, the European gasoline taxes are actually paying for lots of the social programs, such as national health care, national child care, time-off following the birth of a child, etc. According to that CNN interview, by the time you add up the taxes Americans pay PLUS the expenses for health care, child care, the cost of not working for a new mother, the Europeans are actually paying less in total expenses than Americans. I'm sure that those expenses and benefits are not uniform so, it is hard to generalize. Albert

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Kind of what I thought.  Wouldn't that make a straight on comparison... rroberts New

Yes, I agree, the comparison is not overly realistic. It was just kind of .... axr6 New

That's cool.  Most of us aren't overly realistic anyway. <NT> rroberts New

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