|
Korean Job Discussion Forums
"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!"
|
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Trevor
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
|
 Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 5:58 am Post subject: |
 |
|
Ignore him and he usually goes away, Rufus.
| RufusW wrote: |
| Kimbop wrote: |
| Koreans are generally good people (as opposed to Haitians): they don't commit many crimes, they have a good work ethic, they're respectful of public propoerty, etc. |
WTF? How did this slip in here? Was this sarcasm? Haitians are generally bad people? |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:01 am Post subject: |
|
|
| bucheon bum wrote: |
| And btw, my take home pay here in the US is 70% of my salary. That is after fed and state taxes, health insurance deduction, and 401K contribution. IOW, not near the 50% that jeonmunka mentioned. |
You have to add in the taxes that are built into prices. Consider a farmer. He pays petrol taxes, taxes on employed labour, sales taxes and the rest. His product is shipped by a firm (that pays taxes on labour, petrol taxes etc) to a store/factory. Every step of the production process involves the government extracting revenue and pushing up prices.
And they can't balance their budget. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:25 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Jeonmunka wrote: |
Note originally I said, 'western countries.' I don't know why everyone suddenly jumps down my throat because I'm not making claims about the US. The US is a small part of our western countries. Cripes, Yata comes from Canada don't you?
Ask any NZer, Australian, European their tax and they'll tell you close to 50%. Not just income tax but VAT, GST ... it adds up.
As for NZ, it doesn't have offshore military bases, no navy, air force.
| Quote: |
| my take home pay here in the US is 70% of my salary. That is after fed and state taxes, health insurance deduction, and 401K contribution |
So, you have no land tax, no sales tax? No excise taxes?
Come on ... |
1. I'm aware you said western countries, and wasn't disputing that. I was trying to imply that US federal revenues aren't near the 50% you mentioned, and are in between other Western countries and Korea. Just trying to add to the explanation of the whole Korea vs. US thing.
2. Not at the federal level, no. All those are state taxes. And we were comparing the Korean gov't to the US. Perhaps a more apt comparison would be a large US state to the Korean gov't. Pretty pitiful that California, a state with MANY more resources than the ROK, is in such dire financial shape.
And ya-ta is most definitely American. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Reggie
Joined: 21 Sep 2009
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:17 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| South Korea is a burden on the American taxpayer. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:25 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Reggie wrote: |
| South Korea is a burden on the American taxpayer. |
South Korean exports also reduce American job availibility. South Korea also has an absolutely ridiculous trade policy from the perspective of partner nations like the United States.
We really need to decide if we're going to continue to support the Asian slide into economic dominance or not. If we're cool with Asia becoming the economic center of the world, then we can just keep doing business as usual. If not, then we have some things that need fixing. Note that this is much more relevent to China, but South Korea is also involved. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| We should sign that FTA with South Korea (along with the agreements made with Colombia and I think Panama). |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
