And yet here you are.
I'm curious: what made you decide to move to a country with no freedom, bad education and no culture?
I'm curious: what made you decide to move to a country with no freedom, bad education and no culture?
Before landing here I thought the USA was a great country. But my preconceptions have fallen.
I am aware I have started a thread that is drifting way off topic and can potentially get very personal. If you'd like to discuss the issue further over a beer, that'd be great. We can then talk about why I pay almost identical income taxes in the USA and in Spain, and yet here my money doesn't seem to come back to me. You can reach me at my surname at ucla edu.
You sound like a nice guy, I just hate these myths that the US is somehow a hellhole compared to Europe. And you failed to demonstrate why the US is less free than Europe.
"We can then talk about why I pay almost identical income taxes in the USA and in Spain"
USA: top income tax rate and the top corporate tax rate are 35 percent.
Spain: top income tax rate is 45 percent, and the top corporate tax rate is 35 percent.
Now for the jugular (from heritage.org)!
USA: Unemployment: 5.5%, $39,676 per capita
Spain: Unemployment: 11%, GDP per capita $25,047
It would seem that Americans are almost twice as wealthy as Spaniards, pay less income tax, and have more than half the unemployment.