I'd have to call into question the figures provided that Barry provides. While my retirement income is a bit higher, I really wished I only paid $235.81 a year for medicare! It's closer to *that* per month when counting my medicare advantage program which is only about $65. a month extra over medicare. Must be some smoke and mirrors going on here. I would assume *government subsidies* would include corporate tax incentives or breaks. But then I don't hire employees who intern pay taxes on their earned income. On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 6:55 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
---In [email protected], <punditster@...> wrote : On 4/9/2014 3:32 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: > One for Mike Dixon and those who think like him >> > Apparently, Barry pays zero U.S. income, property or sales tax, unlike Mike Dixon who probably pays all his federal and state taxes. Go figure. Stupid idiot - you're not supposed to use someone's name in the subject line. Only a newbie or a nerd would do something like that. Send in the clowns! But Bawwy pays more than his fair share of Dutch liquor taxes.That should count for something. Excerpt from Dutch Institute for Alcohol Policy: Excise duties are levied on all alcoholic beverages. Like Value Added Tax, excise duties are included in the price the consumer pays. The tax is remitted to the Tax Administration by the manufacturers in the Netherlands, by traders and also by importers of excisable goods (for example, importers of American brandy). For beer, the excise duty is progressive and is levied according to categories expressed in degrees Plato. The excise duties on wine are different between sparkling and non-sparkling (still wines) and are progressive in relation to ranges of alcohol content by volume. There is a special excise duty for products that are in between (for example port, sherry and vermouth). For spirits, the excise duty is levied as a set amount per hectolitre of pure alcohol. In September 2013 Cabinet agreed on a rise in almost all taxes on alcohol as of 2014 (+5,75%). Now the excise duty per glass is: Glass of pilsner beer (250 cc) 9,5 eurocent Glass of still wine (100 cc) 8,8 eurocent Glass of gin (35 cc) 20,6 eurocent > > > >
