[ale] OT: Forget Comcast, I wanna move to Germany!

[Jeff Lightner]

It seems funny to see someone talking about population density being a
mover in economics.  When I went to India a few years back it was to
setup wireless local loop phones for HOMES.  This was being done because
that city of 20 Million people (Mumbai) wasn't efficient in building the
infrastructure to wire peoples homes for simple phone service very well.

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James P. Kinney III
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:32 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Forget Comcast, I wanna move to Germany!

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 16:27 -0400, Jay Finch wrote:
> Well, as I understand the way that German Telekom works, the
> government also subsidizes most of their services and folks living in
> Germany pay a higher tax rate to support it (amongst other Government
> programs).  
> 
> So (if I'm understanding things correctly) how would you like to pay a
> 50% (or higher) tax rate in order to have those advanced services?
> I'll take my 25% bracket (for now, unless we get a consumption-based
> tax like FairTax) and be happy for now. :)
> 
> Cheers!
> Jay

Run the taxes through the roof if I can get a better school system and
better public sector services. There are still loads of rich folks
making scads of $$ (sorry - don't have the Euro symbol in front of me)
so the higher tax rate can't possibly be killing off business like the
whining shift the tax burden to the non-voting people - our kids and
grand kids - keep claiming. Maybe we should up the death tax and kill
'em off early to pay off the bills they have run up.

Didn't we get in a little war around 1776 over "No taxation without
representation"?  

Gad! What a rant even from me. Maybe I shouldn't eat pepperoni pizza
before I hit ALE mail...
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