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...principle, Helga Moser doesn't have anything against paying taxes. Like all Germans, the 49-year-old Bonn medical technician has long enjoyed a generous cradle-to-grave welfare system, including a free education and good health care, clean streets, cheap public transport and the reassuring knowledge that she'll get a guaranteed pension when she retires...
...Moser can't help noticing that her taxes keep going up. When she began her career on the medical faculty of Bonn University 25 years ago, she paid about one-third of her salary in taxes and social-security contributions. Today it's about half - far more than the 30% levied in neighboring Switzerland and the U.S., or the 27% rate in Japan. At the same time, beginning next year, the German government will no longer pay for some dental treatment or cover Moser's salary if she falls sick and is off work more than six weeks. That means...
...Look at the "tax wedge" - the difference between what it costs to employ a worker (wages and social-security charges) and the worker's take-home pay. In Belgium and Germany, this gap peaked at more than 50% last year. In other words, a single person without children, like Moser, on average took home less than half of what her employers paid to employ her. France, Austria, Sweden and Italy were close behind, with tax wedges on or above 45%. Taking away such a big slice of income saps people's motivation to work, while also pushing up the cost...
...mayor for taking out ads in the local paper last year that urged President Jacques Chirac to veto a U.N. resolution on war with Iraq. "That's not the job of a mayor," Levy says. "In the future, they'll have to be more careful." Back in Bonn, Helga Moser doesn't take part in any taxpayers' groups or file suits against local authorities - but that doesn't mean she's indifferent when she sees her tax money going down the drain. She's still cross about a TV program she watched the other day showing how money is being...
...able to weather Harvard’s emotional response, and steadily pulled away for the five-point win. Finch was assisted by outside hitters Macnair Sillick and Michael Moser, who tallied 15 and 11 kills respectively for the Violet attack...