As a former Dutchman I need to vehemently object to your misrepresentation of historic facts. And you can't blame me; I was only 2 years old when WWII ended.
Actually, Jeremy, America is more successful at a lot of things, including pulling other nations' butts out of the fire in wartime.
As they say what happened in the past wil be no garantee for the future:With Trump in charge there will be no support in times of war unless he sees a good deal for him and his USA-family. Me, Mom and Dad First.
Of course, we also sent the germans in the wrong direction.
Big deal, my gps does that all the time.
Face it, it was Russians and Americans that saved your sorry asses. Dutch contribution was to unscrew air valves on German soldiers' bicycles.
"Sorry asses" ?"unscrewing air valves"?This would be embarrassing in a children's school yard. I think the thread has devolved sufficiently.
Perhaps that is why discussion of politics was previously banned. It was a bad decision to allow it again. No good can come of it. It certainly doesn't add anything positive to LuLa. Except maybe post count. Which is a lousy metric for quality.
Why is it that everybody and his mother-in-law feels completely entitled to criticize, mock, and spit on America and its sitting President?
just a tiny effort to give the subject its own space
See what you started?
America is more successful at collecting taxes than Europe I believe. First off, most people are employees. The tax collector makes the employer responsible to pay upfront taxe of their employees. So most of the Federal and State and Local tax payments are made by their employers and taken out of the regular salary check when the employees get paid. Social Security and Medicare deduction are also made by the employer at the time he pays his employees. There's not much "net" left.
I am not sure that this is true. There are probably more self-employed people in the US than in Europe and the chance for faking the books is much larger in that case (not reporting certain amounts of income, fake deductions, etc.). A number of European countries have automatic income tax calculations by the government. Perhaps Bart can weigh in on this but I've read that in The Netherlands it takes less than 10 minutes to do one's income tax.
Just look at what the government says you earned and confirm the number; that's it.
Why is it that everybody and his mother-in-law feels completely entitled to criticize, mock, and spit on America and its sitting President? None of us on the American side complained or started running for our British nanny’s skirt, wailing about locking the thread, banning political discussions, etc. But when we return the favor, mildly, everybody is offended? Grow up.
I am not sure that this is true. There are probably more self-employed people in the US than in Europe and the chance for faking the books is much larger in that case (not reporting certain amounts of income, fake deductions, etc.). A number of European countries have automatic income tax calculations by the government. Perhaps Bart can weigh in on this but I've read that in The Netherlands it takes less than 10 minutes to do ones income tax. Just look at what the government says you earned and confirm the number; that's it. In our own case, the government knows every bit of my wife and my income and yet we have to get Turbo Tax every year and go through all the cumbersome data entry. The IRS should be able to do the tax calculation for us for free!!! Both of my daughters are in the same position as salaried workers. It's just obscene that the tax code is bonkers in this regard.
Yes. I agree with that
