• Taxes...

  For 4 months and 1 week, or 3 hours out of every 8 hour day, you're working for the government - that's the USA.

  It'll be more in other high tax areas like Europe..

  The average American family of four, with a median income of $47,012, will pay $10,250 in federal taxes and another $6,110 in state and local taxes - for a total "tax liability" of $16,36.

  Average childcare costs will also eat up about $7000 per year.

  And if I dare ask the question again...

  If it's that bad in the world's richest country, what's it like where you live?

• And the higher the standard of living – the more you're likely to spend...

  The average American spends $1.22 for every dollar they earn.

  Just watch that pile up the debt!

• gasoline - $1200 per year
• spend hundreds on dry cleaning, pantyhose, and appropriate daywear
• eating out for lunches - $2000
• auto insurance - $500
• auto maintenance (oil, tires)
• parking $1800 - $5 per day
• Costs of raising a child

  It's been estimated that it will cost about $250,000 to raise a child from birth to age 17.

  And some experts reckon it will cost $17,000 for the first year alone

And when you compare those figures with Europe where tax rates are higher, social security costs are higher, sales tax (VAT) is 2 to 3 times higher and gasoline (petrol) costs 3 to 4 times more, it gets even scarier.

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