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Strategies & Market Trends : Commodities - The Coming Bull Market

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To: craig crawford who wrote (1480)10/28/2002 6:38:50 PM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (2) of 1643
 
Stelzer estimates that 50 percent of the sticker price of a new Cadillac goes for taxes.

yep. I have been a little concerned about the drain of UK manufacturing jobs too. To be honest, some of them came from the USA in the first place.

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If you can't get the illustration here are the numbers. Labor rates per hour by country..

CHINA........................$0.53
SLOVAKIA.................$1.41
CZECK REPUBLIC...$2.06
TAIWAN......................$6.13
SOUTH KOREA.........$7.13
UK..............................$15.00

also
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In Scotland we had "Silicon Glen". That's more or less gone now, though much of it because of consolidation within the industry too.

Overall it's bad news.

The most important question is...

How many people are left to pay all the taxes to run our government here.

Taxable base gets less and less every day. More and more politicians though, all sorts of regional parliaments springing up and, unlike the Firemen, they did award themselves a 30% pay raise.

Money no problem for politicians to spend..

news.bbc.co.uk

just to house some useless parasites. Most Scottish people think the same too. Just for them to say there is no funds to do anything, and to endlessly squabble over B/S.
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