> From: SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> I hear that tax is low in Brittany . . .
>
> even lower in switzerland :-)
... where there's no social health care, and health insurance is mandatory and
not at all cheap. (Unless you compare it to the US, which is hardly fair, the
US having the highest-cost health care in the world by nearly a factor of two.)
Besides, it may be true that the Swiss Federal tax is among the lowest in the
developed world, but the canton and gemeinde tax really narrows the gap.
And then there's the annual tax on bicycles, on radios, on television, on
roller blades...
In Switzerland, anything that is not mandatory is not allowed, and that which
is mandatory is also taxed... :-)
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