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>>>>Furthermore those claims that cry about 50% of people not paying taxes ignore the fact that they are indeed paying, albeit indirectly thru highly underpaid jobs which for some here its they fault for they do not work hard enough...
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>>>right idea, wrong arguement: they pay all those consumption taxes: from VAT down to those stupid other ones:
>>>salt, coffee, champagne, alcohol, energy and so on.
>>>Although we germans are probably much further "ahead" on that dimension.
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>>You are right. We also have some of them here in Canada, There were talks some time ago to tax the fat (the people not the thing :) which of course I oppose, otherwise I will be funding most of the public works by myself!
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>Hmm, double edged: it might spur me to get rid of a couple of pounds that I was too lazy for -
>just because I don't like paying taxes...

Would that be the lb (454g) or pfund (500g)?

Once I checked my weight on a german railway station, and the machine printed a 160! Then, after realizing I couldn't possibly gain that much wait in just one week, I read the smaller print: "sie wiegen 160 halbe-kilo" :).