You're discussing gasoline prices a lot, but you are forgetting that this is just about taxing, and when talking taxation, you need to look at the whole package.
Where I live, a person could spend his wage this way:
45% Tax
22% Place to live
10% Car
0% Health insurance
less than 1% Other kinds of insurances
2% Telephony, internet
15% Food
5% For the rest
=100% Total
Of the car costs, only a third is gasoline, since the price of the car itself is taxed about 225% and service is expensive because of high labor wages. The biggest expenses in our lives are: Our house, our car, children, in that order. But we don't spend money on insurances.
Other countries do this in much different ways. For instance, some countries have less tax on wage and more tax on employers. Some countries, like Switzerland, have health insurances that you need to pay for.
I know, that a lower tax on gasoline would mean a higher tax somewhere else, so I don't complain about the tax on gasoline - I usually just complain about having to pay tax :) |
