Re: I'm working on yet another license

Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
Hello from Germany, where I have 6 weeks vacation :-) 
And for that you pay how much in reduced salary, taxes etc.?
(asks another German)


For just the vacation?  That's impossible to tell.  For everything,
the vacation, transit, healthcare, the overall maintenance of a
society with a shocking (for an American) lack of poverty, maybe 1-4
weeks' pay.  That's my best estimate, anyway.

Well, your employer pays you less than he would, because he is forced to pay vacation. Not you choose, but the state. Healthcare also has to be paid and you may not even choose from a free market how much insurance you want (if you live healthy, maybe you want to save on insurance?). If the SPD gets its plan through, you are even forced to a unified insurance that will dictate what will be covered and what won't.

My dad recently had a problem in his eye, and he needed some laser therapy, otherwise he'd have gone blind. The (public) insurance didn't pay a thing. He had to pay €2000 of his own. Well, then why is he forced to pay maybe €700 every month if they won't even cover really threatening stuff like this??

Lack of poverty?: well, we have WIDESPREAD unemployment. Ok, they all get €300 or so a month (which isn't bad), but our country is becoming more wasteland every day.

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