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I LIVE IN AN EX COMMUNIST BLOCK in Burgas Bulgaria, its hard to imagine how GREAT it actually is, its kinda like a low rent [literally my rent is $150 a month] Amsterdam. The commi city planners got it STOP ON. They even thought about the type of trees to plant, FRUIT TREES - why? 4 months of FREE FRUIT for every resident. :-D
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@Freshbott2 - I think you are basically correct. What I see as a European is that Americans have been trained to believe that government provide NOTHING, and if they do its not for you its for the scroungers in society and 99cents out of every $1 in your taxes is WASTED. Americans just DONT BELIEVE in government, tax cuts have wone elections for 40 years. Also - Americans have been trained to believe that cars somehow = freedom and that is communist to make them use a train or a bike. The final thing another commenter said - Americans REALLY don't like to do things other countries have done. It implies the other country did something better first...
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@Freshbott2 - Where I live its 10% flat rate tax on everything - wages, stock dividends, capital gains, benefits. Then they rebate low wage people. The benefit is there is no point employing an expensive accountant to save you money - whichever column you put it in its still 10% - so its super cheap to collect and enforce and in reality at 10% the super-rich are actually paying more then in the USA. That said it needs to rise to 15% - the EU has paid for a lot of infrastructures that will need maintaining.
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@nimrodbegg123 - The nemesis of democracy is television and to a lesser extent radio. As soon as these were invented people started to elect politicians on style way more than policy or track record. so you end up with the perverse situation where I, a literal communist, support the unelected hereditary peers... That alone should tell everyone how utterly broken modern "democracy" is. A classic example was the UK government a few weeks ago making it legal for water companies to pump raw sewage into the rivers and the sea, it was the House Of Lords that stopped them. Why were they going to allow sewage in the rivers, cos they have a massive majority and they dont care cos Boris Johnson has a massive voter base cos he is popular despite being utterly useless and a pathological liar. You cant imagine the great great-grandchild of Thomas Jefferson voting to allow raw sewage to be pumped into the rivers of America can you???
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@BestHakase - Same wiht the UK - Lobbying is a respectable profession. Here in Bulgaria its a crime, this is partly why Bulgaria is the "most corrupt country in the EU" cos they are amature at the corruption and have not legalised it...
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OH WOW I just realised I have not seen a pot hole for about 10 years... I forgot they were a thing.
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@Erik-ou3tl - We dont have that here in Bulgaria. What they do on New Years Eve is throw huge fireworks of the balconies of the communist-era apartment blocks - honestly, it looks like the footage of the first strike on Baghdad in the Iraq war. When I moved here 12 years ago there were potholes so big I smashed 2 wheels in ONE of them - then they rebuilt every road and turned the city into an Amsterdam style cycle, walk and trolleybus city and as the traffic usage is so low the roads still look absolutely brand new.
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@nimrodbegg123 - This is similar to the phenomenon of the hereditary peers iin the house of Lords in the UK. They get to rule over the country because an ancestor was made a Barron in 1730 or something and they are there for life - logic tells you this is a terrible thing. YET, in reality, these people tend to stop the ELECTED politicians doing horrible things to appeal to their base and force the government to do things in the longer-term benefit of the country. If you put aside your prejudice and look at the actual VOTING record, they are the best thing the UK has. It would be like the USA having the great great-grandchildren of the founding fathers in the Senate and you cant unelect them, they have no need to pander and are likely to think of the country more than say - Ted Cruz.
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@Freshbott2 - I live in Bulgaria now, that's the country with 10% flat-rate taxation. I don't know if that is what you were asking?
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