elephant wrote:In Belgium, we have the same problems, in particular because payroll taxes and taxes make wages unaffordable. We are currently busy trying to push back as much as possible the real retirement age.
A Belgian smicar pays roughly 3000 € in income tax per year!
You read correctly, but as it is taken at source (every month), the pill works better ... not Belgian cons!
The problem of Belgium is above all the political mess and the overlapping of governments which induces a complexity of operation rarely seen elsewhere!
Each Walloon has 3 successive and stacked governments which govern it according to the areas: the Walloon region, the French community (Wallonia + Brussels) and the federal government (all of Belgium)!
The rate of ministers per inhabitant is surely the highest in the world ... It would just be necessary to rough the Belgian Mamouth ... the Flemings will be able to achieve it soon ...