>>> Sounds like it to me! The sales tax on a restaurant meal in South Carolina is now greater than the entire cost of the meal PLUS TAX was fifty years ago. <<<
Yeah. I remember getting a gallon of gas, a pack of Luckies and change back on a dollar.
The problem as I see it is that somehow taxes ‘add value’ to a product and that value is then taxed again and again. The difference between us and the Euro folks is that they’re more honest about their excessive taxation.
There is another big difference. I am not a socialist, but in classic european socialism, as opposed to it Islamic pandering stepchild, folks actually got something for their money - I don't argue that they got their money's worth or that it was efficient, merely that the objectives were sort of achieved. School and university educations are paid for, pensions are provided, and "council flats," while having their issues are not Pruitt Igoe.
There is something particularly nasty and depressing about the American version of crony capitalism in socialist clothing.