Only from today on Germans work for themselves, for their own purse. Wo-hoo.
Whereas people in the USA can “feel free”, tax-wise, from April 21st.
In average it’s 51,2% of our income that goes to the state. We´re called the German Michel for a reason, huh?
And then they wonder why we prefer to leave our money in other countries. Perth, we come.
I´m not that politically involved (which is a huge understatement), but, really, news like this do pi## me off, too.
It´s the so-called cold progression “we” don´t fight, the article states. The OECD says Germany is a country with extraordinary high cost, oh, wonderful.
I know, I know, others are off much, much worse, but really, have a look around here.
I get my rear out of bed at 04:40, risk my life every working day by driving the car 37 km one way. Loose time and heaps of money on that, too, having in mind I could do this job from my company as well, some 10 minutes by push-bike from home – but the customer wants me in Wolfsburg. Not that I see him, he works kilometers away.
And when we´re back home and walk to the city. Oh how often do I wonder about certain groups here who get up that early to work as well?
Hell, no. They just do not work at all. They live from also my money, till yesterday it was theirs, too.
And if I dare to wear summer clothes in summer, dare to show my hair, not wearing a head cloth, they give me looks as if they´d like to kill me.
Not all of them, right, but heaps and even young women.
The men walk extra-slow, shoulders stretched out wide, golden chain around the neck.
Cliché?
Too many for that, way too many and let´s not start about selling drugs and driving BMWs.
And then you see German men around 50-60 years of age in orange clothes picking up rubbish in the streets, the so called 1-euro-jobbers.
The German Michel.
Only Hungary and Belgium are even off worse than us. Not really a comforting news.
The deduction for a German single is 53,1% of pre-tax-cost. Switzerland: 24,2% and no, I didn´t mess up numbers. No wonder many Germans live over there, huh.
In average from 1 euro only 48,5 cent is left.
20 cent go to social insurance, from which some whopping 9,6 cent is old age insurance. Which we know will be so little, what we´ll get, it´s like it´s not there, we pay for today´s retirees.
Which is fair. Just… the next generation that´s supposed to work for us… um. I don´t really see it.
Sorry for the rant.
Haha, we´re free now.
9 comments:
You go right ahead and rant Iris, I would too if I was paying those outrageous taxes..that's just not right.. It kind of makes you wonder why you bother to work so hard right!
You really went through this boring post?! Wow, Grace ;-)
Aww, well. If everybody worked hard. But some - and they are many, actually, do not work at all. It´s just not fair over here.
Politicians have no clue what an average person "earns", either. Ome said it´s 7000 euro. Haha. Not even close to half of that for me. Guess they mix brutto and netto, ha-ha. Politics is plain stupid...
And don't forget the 19% "more worth tax" that you pay from the 48 cents. You need fuel? there is nearly one €uro of tax on a liter!
Hint: drive by bike, 37 km should be possible in 2-2.5 hours.
I give that bike-hint back to you ;-)
I've just googled: 8252 Euro for a Politician, and most of them have side jobs in the industry. They "earn" for a (1) consulting speech about 7000 Euro!
His "hard" earned money is about 600.000 Euro per year.
His name? --> Peer Steinbrück
I gotta go. Puke.
That's a lot of tax! Here the tax rates depend on your earnings from about 10% to 37% maximum.
Unfortunately those people who live off the system for which "we" the hard workers pay for exist everywhere, even here! New rules have been put in place recently to stop that abuse... I do hope it helps. Our "pension fund" or superannuation as it's called here is 9,25% of your salary at the moment, rising every year until 2019 when it will reach 12%. But superannuation is privately invested and you choose what you want to invest in. Not too safe either as if there is a "market crash" values come down... We just have to hope there isn't a crash by the time you retire!
Quite frankly I never thought anyone reads more than a sentence of this post!
Yay for new rules in your place, hope it works, so annoying, especially cause those peeps give you the "ha-ha, I live on your work"-looks.
They know we know and that we´re mad - and can´t do a thing about it!
You can privately invest on top here, too (maybe you still remember?). So far we don´t, due to having the condos.
Awww. Money. Not much worth here anymore!
And you forgot the negative interest rate we have. That means, that you have to pay the bank for keeping your money!
If you mean you can keep it at home, in form of gold, watches etc., don't forget the east European "skilled employees". (burglars, car thefts and the other crap )
Last year, the burglary increased by 30 %, that had nothing to do with the opening of the EU to the east.
Santa Claus is a real person! I must know it, I am a politician!
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