U.S. unemployment rate-4.8
England unemployment rate-5.3
France unemployment rate-7.5
Spain unemployment rate-8.1
U.S. average income-53,000
England average income-31,370
France average income-43,000
Spain average income-18,670
U.S. gas/gallon-3.50
England gas/gallon-9.00
France gas/gallon-8.54
Spain gas/gallon-6.40
U.S. tax rate for average income-30%
England tax rate for average income-40%
France tax rate for average income-50%
Spain tax rate for average income-42%
U.S. payroll tax-15.3%
England payroll tax-23.8%
France payroll tax-45%
Spain payroll tax-0
U.S. sales tax-10%(state and local)
England sales tax-17.6%
France sales tax-19.6%
Spain sales tax-16%
U.S. pint of beer-4.05
England pint of beer-5.07
France pint of beer-9
Spain pint of beer-4.09
Whether you want to believe that europe, a socialist continent, is doing better than America I think you are wrong. The average salary is lower, and while some may say that the euro is worth more, proportionately speaking, it buys a lot less. Taxes are significantly higher, which results in less spending money. Socialism has failed in every instance, why would you elect someone that brings this to the table? I think the dumbest possible thing anyone can say is that Obama has a "clear vision". Shit I can have a clear vision of running over a mom and her kid with my car, that doesn't make it a good idea. Obama wants to raise taxes on the "rich". These said rich people are the smartest most successful people in this country, why punish them? People with this much income will move out of this country, there will be no incentive to live here. Our government isn't designed to handle the promises that mccain or obama make. I just personally believe that Obama is just promising things to the country so he can make it in to office.
just my 2 cents...
Those numbers look mighty dandy, especially the figure that states that the US has a gross per capital income of over 53K.
They're wrong.
The only problem is that in the US right now 72% of the wealth is concentrated in only 10% of the people. That means that the remaining 28% is owed by a whopping 90%. If we extrapolate that to the 53k figures, we'll find out that a rather large portion of that number is really a "visual gift" from the richest 10%, or $ 37,736. Hence the REAL gross per capital income in the US
adjusted for weath disparity is $ 15,264. Which seems to be more along the lines of economic "normalcy".
You can make any comparisons you want, like the price of gas or even unemployment, but in doingso you will not be adding any value to the problems that really affect regular people here in the states or making balanced comparisons between the two geographic entities. I mean, unemployment is really big in Europe and their unemployment systems are lightyears away from the
shit that we have here. And we can pretty much extrapolate the figures to any of your observations. I mean school, college, health insurance, all is paid for over in Europe. Over here? Hehehe yeah right!
And with this I'm not trying to put down my country, I love the US, I am merely trying to point out that our system of bending over backwards for Big Business has to stop, either by popular discontent or the government going bankrupt. One or the other, it will fail. And it is failing. Guess where the 850 billion dollar package is going to end up? That's right, that is going to translate into another 1-2% in the Top 1% and taken out of the suckers in the Next 10% row.
Europeans live better man. Bottom line. I mean, they took their continent through God knows how many wars and were able to recontruct it and build back their systems. They must be doing something right!