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In reply to the discussion: Germany Explodes Republican Myth [View all]Festivito
(13,452 posts)36. But, we only pay 20-30% on less and they pay 50% in taxes on it all.
Which might sound good for a moment, until you add the benefits to our taxes and then recalculate the percent we pay.
That's when we realize we pay more taxes than they do and we get less coverage.
Next we stick our fingers in our ears and yell: la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
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How much of these automakers' financial profitability comes from bringing jobs to the US
The Genealogist
Dec 2011
#2
So you suspect that German workers are doing well on the backs of U.S. autoworkers.
LiberalAndProud
Dec 2011
#39
Except that in 2010 US produced nearly 7.8 million automobiles, not 2.7 million
Fool Count
Dec 2011
#5
They have an actual industrial policy. A better model. I nail rabid cons I know with this.
Populist_Prole
Dec 2011
#14
they also have apprenticeships-that PAY MONEY even, we should be more like Germany & Canada
StarsInHerHair
Dec 2011
#20
We have apprenticeships that pay you while you learn - but hard work isn't held in high regard
Edweird
Dec 2011
#23
"Germany ... an economic model with more bottom-up worker control than that of any other country..."
pampango
Dec 2011
#25
They can afford to pay people better in Germany because their CEO's and other 1% don't take as much.
limpyhobbler
Dec 2011
#41
I did an in-depth study of free speech rights and of employee's rights of representation
JDPriestly
Dec 2011
#46