Re: mainframe career advice

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:43:25 GMT, "Michael Mattias"
<michael.mattias@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>This has *got* to be a cultural thing. I've never seen anyone talk about
>wages or salaries using "after tax" as the unit of measure...

But that's what counts.

Unfortunately, that's not easy to determine. Does living in a place
with high sales tax or a high VAT, make your after tax income higher
than living in a place with a high income tax?

Or even living in a place that taxes the corporations from which you
buy goods and services?

All taxes are paid for by the people - even the tax of deficit
spending. Learning how much we are spending on government isn't
easy.

By the same token, we should count those services we get from the
state as income. For instance the tax increase that we get moving
to a country with socialized medicine comes with a spending decrease
for medicine.

The real test is - do you have more stuff or less stuff?
.

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