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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So basically, Europeans are "poorer" on average according to per capita GDP numbers, yet have nearly a decade higher life expectancy than the poorest states in the USA, higher literacy, and much more leisure time.

I think a lot of us would rather be "poor" Europeans by these standards.[/quote]

I don’t think taxing us more and chilling our innovative ecosystem is going to make us happy. But I think it’s inevitable that we’re going to give it a try. We’ll see how it goes. [/quote]

you know that the swiss have a higher GDP per capital and much much lower taxes. when we lived in Wisconsin- we paid almost 43-45% of our income in taxes and my sibling paid 47% in  Sweden (that made me almost cry since they get so much parental leave, free good childcare and free health insurance and its not sucky like the NHS) . all of our friends who live in the eu make less money than we do but they have single family homes, have cars and some even shop at costco! their standard of living is identical to ours except that they have more vacation time But it is more culturally mandated- you have to take off when the kids have off and its less flexible (5 weeks off for summer, 10 days off at xmas, 2/3 weeks off at spring and fall and ski plus the religious holidays like Easter, Ascension etc) [/quote]

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