"Ron" wrote in message
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Fuel price=TAXES= social assistance=better standard of life

Not from where I am sitting.

The productive all across europe get ripped off to buy votes from the
idle
and indolent, leaving them with little for their one well being.

One cannot have a 'better standard of life' when the state is
confiscating
3/4s of ones lifetime earnings via direct and indirect taxation.

The only people to have a 'better standard of life' are those who spend
their entire existence suckling at the public teat.


greg

It will be interesting over the next 10 years to see how Western Europe
handles
it, as their population ages even more, with much less younger people to
help
pay into the system, in proportion to those who are retired and recieving
the
benefits of such a social program.

This last summer while hiking through the Rocky Mountains I passed
many pairs of college students. One pair, to judge by accents and
appearances was a German and an Indian (or Pakistani, at least some
where from the neck of the woods); the portion of the conversation
I caught from this pair was how in the not to distant future every working
German was going to have his very own retiree to support via taxes.