RE: tlug: Net Day

["Jonathan Byrne--3Web" <jq@example.com>]

>what's wrong with Japanese government?  Seems pretty good to me.  Taxes
>are lower than in the USA...


Hmm, it's the corruption, or the corruption, or the corruption, or . . .

Or was it the incompetence?

Both?

The taxes may be lower, but that's because they do less in the way of
services.  If we consider national health insurance/retirement insurance
(shakai hoken/kosei nenkin) to also be a tax, I'm not so sure they're lower.
Then add in local tax that your kuyakusho charges you.  Then add in the user
fees that go with various things.  Taxes aren't as low here as they seem at
first blush.  You just pay through different channels.

Jonathan

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