Nothing wrong with taxes ... in SCANDINAVIA. The money/wealth forked over to the government in taxes mostly comes back to those who pay it, there (and here in Canada too), albeit in a different form. In AMERICA on the other hand, it's a different story! +++++ On Thursday, April 21, 2005, at 01:18 AM, Ruben wrote: > Consider you folks lucky - gas is more than 6 USD / gallon in Danmark > - actually it was above 7 USD / Gallon last month ! > > On top of that When we buy a new car 180 % TAX is added on top of the > price and when that is done 25 % VAT. Then if it a fuel consuming car > we pay about 3000 USD road tax a yaer + insurance. > > In other words > > A Jeep Grand Cherokee is about 200000 USD - If you are below 30 the > Insurance is 8000 USD and he road tax 3000 USD > > If you drive 20000 KM a yaer the cost pr. KM owning a car like that > including service, gas, price of the car and insurance and taxes > amounts to 5,7USD pr. KM or about 9 USD a mile! or 342.000 USD for 3 > years