I've got that ....

[expat]

I believe relative take home vs services is better in France and direct comparisons with basic rates of tax is simply pandering to the spin from the lying, deceiving liebour slugs that should be covered in salt (sorry Xoggoth).

That is true.
- Social contributions are 10% (+ 5.5% medical) compared to 12.8% + 11% up to 645/wk * 1% above.
- The top tax rate is 40% but that's only on income over €65,559 (it was 48% until recently but you wouldn't pay that rate on much of your income).
- You can get a doctor, dentist, hospital bed etc any time you need it. They work evenings and weekends and the doctor will come to your house if you need it. You won't get turned down for budgetary reasons, or be lilely to get MRSA.



(comparisons include employers's contributions, which is only right since they are not paid by the tooth fairy: independent contractors will normally pay them themselves in both countries)

[Buffoon]

Well only this week she came out in support of someone who oversaw the disappearance of thousands, if not more, of innocent people.

Mrs T supporting Tony Blair? I missed that.

[DodgyAgent]

Anyway, when on this thread did I bring up thatcher, other than for the varicose veins reference?

That is all you need.

Anyway I agree with you with regards to Pinochet.

[Lucy]

That is true.
- Social contributions are 10% (+ 5.5% medical) compared to 12.8% + 11% up to 645/wk * 1% above.
- The top tax rate is 40% but that's only on income over €65,559 (it was 48% until recently but you wouldn't pay that rate on much of your income).
- You can get a doctor, dentist, hospital bed etc any time you need it. They work evenings and weekends and the doctor will come to your house if you need it. You won't get turned down for budgetary reasons, or be lilely to get MRSA.



(comparisons include employers's contributions, which is only right since they are not paid by the tooth fairy: independent contractors will normally pay them themselves in both countries)

Except France is such a basket case we couldn't get jobs there, so it's irrelevant.

[hyperD]

Oh do **** off you pompus dick.

Ah yes, the last bastion of the bitter and cranially challenged when facts interfere with ideology: childlike insults.

[Lucy]

Mrs T supporting Tony Blair? I missed that.

Wouldn't be surprised if she did, he's not changed much of what she implemented...

[expat]

Except France is such a basket case we couldn't get jobs there, so it's irrelevant.

Well, I could. But that's irrelevant to the question of which country has better "value" for the compulsory payments. As someone looking for a dentist in Bedfordshire that will take on a new patient (weekend appointments only, I'm away all week), I sometimes miss France and some of the things they do right.