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For people with an income close to, but below the health insurance cap, the current marginal tax and social insurance rate in Germany is more than 73%, and before Schroeder's income tax cuts, you could have more than 80% marginal rate (in a narrow but densely populated income band). Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den MenschenVolker Pispers
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
As said above, the cap is not simply a cap. You can leave the public health insurance if you earn that much, which is way cheaper. So a single with gross income of 43201 EUR, can end up with 200 EUR more each month than a person with an income of 43199 EUR. Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den MenschenVolker Pispers
If so, I ask you to define me the inputs I should look up in the form of a formula.
Now I can say the following [pdf!]:
I note however that Slovenia is a less obvious argument as I originally thought: the present income tax reflects tax cuts by current right-wing government, and even if those were less 'ambitious' than original proposals, the biggest gift to the rich was the elimination of a top income tax rate of 50%. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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