Re: FA 35mm f/2 European prices please

[Peter J. Alling]

Sorry but that depends on the country.  A friend of mine who was living 
and  working in Germany doing about the same job I was doing. When we 
compared wages, he was making about half what I was making.  I was 
paying an effective tax rate of approximately 45% which included Social 
Social Security, Federal, State and Medicaid, (that doesn't include the 
employer match on SS which is actually a tax on the employee).  He was 
paying approximately 55%.  The costs are actually much higher after taxes. 

Graywolf wrote:
It is a matter of reletive wages. For the average American things cost 
about the same in hours/worked as they do for the average European. It 
is only when you cross borders that things are cheaper, or more 
expensive. Also our tax bases are different. I believe our governments 
taxes income and real property higher than European governments do, 
and have lower import duties and transfer fees (value added/sales tax).

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John Whittingham wrote:
Wouldn't that depend on your defination of "cheaper"?

I meant better value for my money, did I offend someone?
John

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From: "Peter J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:53:55 -0400
Subject: Re: FA 35mm f/2 European prices please

Wouldn't that depend on your defination of "cheaper"?
Cotty wrote:

On 18/10/04, John Whittingham, discombobulated, unleashed:


Is everything cheaper in the US?
 

Everything but the girls ;-)

Cheers,
Cotty
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. 
During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings 
and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
	--P.J. O'Rourke