Dont pay too much attention to me but this is my theory.
There is to my knowledge only one really wealthy country whose riches are shared and managed by all equally.
The rest of the world is shafted by there governments to which they play a global game set up and designed to suppress the middle class.
It works by empowering the rich to keep them well! rich, by feeding the poor from the middle classes pocket to gain there vote so they keep there jobs. It is all done by taxing the middle class, rigged living and working environments, markets and industry created by the system to keep in check the majority ( middle class ).
Forget fines, levies, duties, stamps, mortgages, tolls, cost of living etc they are all rolled and summed up and expressed this way Taxes!!! And Taxes = diversion every one of you is caught up in it including me.
I am a Pipe welder here in Maryland USA. I make around $120,000 a year my income taxes run around 25%, then they take 15% from gross for Federal social security (retirement Fund) Now I have to pay my State tax 6% on my gross income annually, then there is my state sales tax ( everything purchased inside this state ) which is 6%, then there is my property taxes at around 16% based on my property value which is set by the state not the market, then I pay around 20% of my gross income for a private health care program, capital gains income is 30% with no recourse to loss.
Now compare that with what you make and pay and I guarantee you it works out the same, UK, Germany, OZ, USA, and Canada. Its done by design. The dollar, pound, Frank, euro is all equally worth nothing. The UK is usually considered to be the worlds highest taxed nation of around 52% gross income with the 17% Vat. Now do your math, if you add up my tax obligations all accept the property tax it = 72% UK = 69% strange Uh!!!? Very close, an irony considering the British wholly perfected the tax system that started in 1066 then they exported it to the USA in 1570, which in turn got there asses kicked out in 1776 because of it, then the USA needed cash in 1917 the income tax was reintroduced based on the British system.
We are paying $2.63 a gallon of gas here right now, oh!! I hear you say thats cheap, well yes it is but I have been financially raped before I filled up my tank, the tax was collected elsewhere and not put on gas.
Now saying all that, there exists a special guild where if you take the time and surround yourself with the right people and with a little help from the tax laws, you will end up in the exempt club.
We own a 10 acre horse boarding stables which my wife works, also I work my machine and weld shop on the side which we put through our farm services business, all my machines, shops, vehicles, land, fuel, computers, clothing is written as write offs, 30% off the top. Capital equipment is amortized over 5 years giving me a tax credit every year for 5 years. I get low mortgage rates as I am agricultural.
I will give you a classic example, diesel is $2.95 a gallon which everyone has to pay, but! Since I own a business I can claim on my taxes this, I have a farm truck, work truck both diesel, welder is diesel, and our 50hp tractor is diesel and the farm generator. Now tax law allows me 30% off the top $2.95 = $2.07 then for every gallon purchased I get $0.60 cents Federal credit bringing it down to $1.47. All legal and written in the tax code.
The only snag is capital gains and profit margins, but there are ways around it, as in the law allows for capital drainage.
So remember when you purchase your next little boring bar from either your own country or abroad you are all paying the same, the tax cake maybe sliced into different thick nesses but it all tastes the same.
Wealthy men dont pay taxes, its designed that way.
As too the country I stated in my first paragraph, its Norway, they own 75% of the natural gas all supplied to the European Union with a collective population of 670 million people and there reserves head into 2080. They are a socialistic nation with all needs provided for by the state funded by its wealth, with very little corruption in the government the people live well. Not bad for doing a 35 hour mandatory work week uh!.
Money is the root of all evil and he lives a Dollar bill, pound, Yen and Euro
God bless. Anthony.