Moogie
2009-06-26 16:59:23
Oh, by the way, I should point out that workers in Austria pay up to 50% income tax along with a Value Added Tax (VAT) which he describes as a “sales tax on steroids.” It’s an additional 20% on everything that you purchase.
They are running out of workers in the EU, and Europeans aren’t having the requisite 2.1 kids to perpetuate their population, so immigration is highly valued as a way of bringing in more tax payers (sound familiar?). The big problem: they immigrate but don’t integrate. It will be interesting to see, in another 20 or so years, the demographics in the EU.
