'Home Sweet Home'

jopperm2 · Post by **jopperm2** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:20 am

I don't have anything against Canada, but there just doesn't seem to be any reason I would want to live there.. It's pretty and there's a great deal of hunting/fishing/campin/hiking that I would enjoy though.. I'll give you that..

Just curious, about how much do you pay in taxes?

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:37 pm

[QUOTE=jopperm2]Just curious, about how much do you pay in taxes?[/QUOTE]
Depends on which province you're in. For instance, Alberta doesn't have to pay certain taxes, seeing as they are the richest of the provinces, on account of that oil reserve they're sitting on (largest in North America, from my understanding). Meanwhile, out in Ontario, we're getting pooched...

We have:
7% Provincial Sales Tax on all goods
8% Good's and Services' Tax on all goods
A yearly $600 Health Premium Tax (and that's with our free health care)

Those are just the taxes off the top of my head put on us by the provincial government. That's include the Federal taxes we get nailed with.

jopperm2 · Post by **jopperm2** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:43 pm

Ouch! That's harsh..

I pay about 7% of my income into Social Security and Medicare
For people not from the US, Social Security is government retirement money, and Medicare is Government Health insurance for old people..

I pay 6% Sales tax to the State of Florida on everything but unprepared food.

I don't make enough to have to pay Federal income tax.

I pay about $3200.00 per year for Health insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Plan, and Life insurance that covers me, my wife, and my daughter.

I think that's pretty good, but of course I'd like to see it lower..
Some areas and income levels pay more than me as well, and I wouldn't want to pay what they pay..

frogus23 · Post by **frogus23** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:41 am

Is it really the tax brackets that you love most about your home-town?

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:46 am

[QUOTE=frogus23]Is it really the tax brackets that you love most about your home-town?[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah, they're simply the best.

Actually, what I love most about my town, is the fact that people actually think that I could do a better job on the City Council than the existing members... The frightening part, though, is that I'm still only 19, and yet have suppoesedly been polled at a large portion of support...

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 7:24 pm

Stockholm, Sweden

To avoid a lenghty complaint about the unfair Swedish immigration policy and inefficient educational politics, I will focus on the town I live in.

What I like: my university (I would move to New Zealand or Morocco or Greenland if it weren't for my lab), the clean air, that it's getting increasingly multicultural and that there are 4 seasons

What I dislike: it's boring and lifeless

[quote="JopperM2]In France"]

ROFL, in France, people drive in a French way, which is less orderly than in the US but it works ok, you should go by the Metro anyway, that's what I always do when I'm in Paris. The level of chaos in the traffic in Paris is nothing compared to the big Asian cities

Bakunin · Post by **Bakunin** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 7:46 pm

Smack dab in the middle of New Jersey...an hour or so east of Philly and about the same south from NYC...not a bad area...The downside? It cost way too much $$$ but I suppose thats the case everywhere...