Forum Archive Index - September 2002

["Craig Hoskin" <craig@infobahnz.co.nz>]

Title: RE: [sharechat] oh,,,,dear.. more bad news

|Why is it that as soon as someone tries to say we are taxed to
|high some
|person tries to cut him down by bringing some obscure country in to the

So Australia or Sweden are obscure countries?

|spotlight which has no direct bearing on why we pay so much
|tax except that

Is Australia so different from NZ in terms of its standard of living, general society standards/expectations?  Sure they derive their income from some different sources ... but are we that different.

Having lived and worked (and paid taxes for both company and individual) ... yes ... we do have it good here.  Could it be better ... probably ... BUT ...  I do appreciate the NZ tax laws compared to Aussie.

|there social welfare structure is worse or better depends
|which side of the
|fence you are on, than ours
|and that 60 % like here are on some sort of benefit.
|Get a life if you think your not paying enough make a donation
|but leave the
|socialist bullshit out.

Thanks for playing ...