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Forum: USA
Aug 25th 2013, 4:28 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 14,547
Posted By Giantaxe

Re: Leave entitlement from work

All so true... And the snide comment about Oakland really sums up dlake for me.
Forum: USA
Aug 25th 2013, 4:26 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 14,547
Posted By Giantaxe

Re: Leave entitlement from work

I flew to Vancouver last November on the Saturday after Thanksgiving Day. Iirc, the return fare (on Alaska) was under $400. This was via Portland. Amazingly the weather was stunning, unlike the...
Forum: USA
Aug 21st 2013, 4:12 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 14,547
Posted By Giantaxe

Re: Leave entitlement from work

Some a lot less than others, which is pretty much the basic point here... for example, how many people go bankrupt in the UK from an inability to pay medical bills after they get sick?
Forum: USA
Aug 20th 2013, 3:40 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 14,547
Posted By Giantaxe

Re: Leave entitlement from work

According to a Harvard study a few years ago, 75% of people who end up declaring bankruptcy through inability to pay medical bills had insurance when they first got sick. I don't know what percentage...
Forum: USA
Aug 20th 2013, 6:42 am
Replies: 224
Views: 14,547
Posted By Giantaxe

Re: Leave entitlement from work

Or what of he'd had a job that didn't provide health insurance? Or was self-employed and at risk of having his insurance cancelled and/or made unaffordable? In fact, I'm struggling to see what point...
Forum: USA
Aug 15th 2013, 7:34 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 14,547
Posted By Giantaxe

Re: Leave entitlement from work

I'd make a choice based on a number of factors including a country's safety net and the likelihood that a country's economic policies were such that I had a higher probability of ceasing being poor...
Forum: USA
Aug 14th 2013, 2:34 am
Replies: 224
Views: 14,547
Posted By Giantaxe

Re: Leave entitlement from work

France has cool trains, more debt in relation to GDP than the US, 11.5% unemployment and an economy that's contracting. Now I happen to like France - a lot - but the first of those items hardly...
Forum: USA
Aug 13th 2013, 3:39 am
Replies: 224
Views: 14,547
Posted By Giantaxe

Re: Leave entitlement from work

They're passing judgement on the viability of French debt not that France has great art, cathedrals. food and wine.
Forum: USA
Aug 12th 2013, 9:25 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 14,547
Posted By Giantaxe

Re: Leave entitlement from work

I think the balance here is too far in the direction of corporations and their lobbying $$$, but I don't see it as black and white as you seem to do. And of course many of those European countries...
Forum: USA
Aug 12th 2013, 8:48 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 14,547
Posted By Giantaxe

Re: Leave entitlement from work

It's a corporatist society and always has been.
Forum: USA
Aug 12th 2013, 8:46 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 14,547
Posted By Giantaxe

Re: Leave entitlement from work

The effective tax rate I pay on my income (high tech salary, large mortgage, single, no exemptions for dependents) is just over 10% for federal and 5% for state. Throw in 8% or so for SS and...
Forum: USA
Aug 12th 2013, 8:05 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 14,547
Posted By Giantaxe

Re: Leave entitlement from work

And apparently it's making a big difference in when people choose to have families. In the US, people are delaying much longer because children are likely to interfere much more with one's career. In...
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