Used Bike Purchasing for the Vacationing American?

Bollocks.

A friend of mine is a Director for a well known IT company- he gets
about 3 weeks a year. His view was this was generous.

In the UK a minimum of four weeks a year.

It's not 20%.

 

What cumulative impact; businesses get to reclaim vat on materials etc.
it's a tax aimed at the end user.

 

I'm committed to work 197 days a year for GBP 33K - maximum day length
9h 30m (average 8h 45m).

Which is nice.

 

Aha... heard it from a friend then! Must be true!

IT in the US is on the way OUT. Offsourced to India whenever possible.
Geeks are lucky to have a job let alone vacation and good riddance. I
was getting tired of listening to those dweebadonna weenies bitch and
whine about the oligarchy. And from the sounds of it your friend works
for a shit company. You see we don't have government bullshit
regulations over every little thing. Employers and 'ees are free to
arrange whatever they find agreeable. Which is probably why your
friend has crap benefits whilst others do not. A few raw eggs every
morning ought to help his testicles descend rather nicely.

As one who holds citizenship in the US and EC I think I know better
than yourself or your friend. My estimations come from actually living
here and there vs. BBC doublespeak. If you want to be a middle class
droid then Europe is definately the way to go. Free healthcare (though
you should tip the doctors and carry private insurance if you want
first class), decent education, etc... blahblahblah. The government is
geared towards power to the people and all that.

At the expense of being SOOL if you're anything beyond much upper
middle class. There is a very real glass ceiling that prevents one
from setting up small business there. And it will always stay small
thanks to countless regulations, misappropriations and socialist
masturbations. The individual is nothing more than a member of a
larger collective. Who is only entitled to a "fair" amount of personal
wealth.

The US by comparison is a free market free for all. I truly enjoy
watching the impotent being devoured and exploited like oh so much
irrelevant meat. We can fight all the wars we want and I know my
children will never be asked to serve. We can set up pro-business tax
policies and pocket the difference... let the little people eat cake!
Darwinism improving the breed. The sock-n-sandal touriste you so
readily mock is not an American. That's just an accidental piece of
meat that real Americans use to fatten their portfolios with. America
never really did abolish slavery, we just made it an equal opportunity
(and voluntary) enterprise!

So go ahead and appease every turd world country of terrorists,
pseudointellectual socialist and useless wards of the nanny state.
Don't forget to work your ass off so the Frogs can smoke their
Gauloises at the cafe and comment on your bourgeiose sensibilities
while receiving the EC unemployment cheque.

Means shit when you're being paid peanuts for the work. Ask any young
UK types what their job outlook is like. Must be why alcoholism is so
rampant amongst young Britons.

Oooh.... so sorrry. 17.5%. A world of difference!

Just don't land your sorry ass in other EC nations where's it's 25%!

 

Oh you wouldn't believe how much paid holiday I get.


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

It is - I'm NHS - only 48 days paid holiday... A bit shite really
comparted to the 10 or 15 days the Merkins get...

 

Well, yes. I've known him for twenty years and I know a few ex-pats
based in the san jose area.

Well, I say IT; semiconductor co. Rather a large one.

My freind also holds EC and US citizenship and has lived in the states
for about 10 years now.

So, I don't know how since you don't know him you can presume to know
more than him. You *might* then again you *might not*. You simply
don't know.

*yawn* you'll need better bait than that. At least *try* to make it
believable.

Hmm. Not really worthy of comment.

I think your crowd did enough appeasing/training of terrorists in the
past. Problem was the dog got too big for the owner, didn't it.

You stated that multinationals in the UK wouldn't give any more holidays
than US companies.

Well it's a considerable difference.

My arse isn't sorry and I spend (almost) as much time in other EC
countries as I do in the UK during the working week. So I think I've a
little experience of this.

 

which raises the "cost" of material, etc.. Nothing's free no matter what
the government might try to say to the contrary.

 

48, lucky bugger. I only get 40. But on the pittance we get paid in
Europe it's about the same as 2 days in America apparently according to
our friend Delirious.

 

retired, eh?

 

There's the cost of the admin of the tax collection, true enough;
however the business buys materials (on which it pays 17.5% VAT), adds
labour, sells a product (on which it *charges* 17.5% VAT) so, assuming
the business sells at a profit then VAT can be considered to 'enhance
its cash flow' since it holds the money until it does the VAT return
(last time I ran a company- about 10 years ago from memory once a
quarter).

It's not going to 'effectively double' the vat rate to 40%.

 

I forgot to include holidays. 30 days is just personal days. Ooopsie!

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bownse

You really are rather stupid, aren't you?

But then of course, you are a Septic.

 

Attilla the Hungry says...

Last US firm I worked for only gave their US based employees 5 days
holiday on top of statutory ones. We in England got 20 days, which at
the time wasn't the legal minimum. Our US colleagues were not best
pleased.

 

The company gets to *benefit* from holding onto the VAT money before it
passes it on to the government.

So the US states with purchase tax are also socialist then?

 

48 days holiday here includes the (8?) national bank holidays
(Christmas day etc).

 

"leave him Nigel, he's not worth it"

 

America - what a place - if only we had the delights they do... I so
wish I'd been born American...

 

Translation:
I am a second rate citizen living in a third rate economy and
therefore must prostitue myself to the lowest quality US employers,
often on a foreigner's visa. From this peon's existence I will make
sweeping generalisations of an entire nation.

 

You really do have to grasp rather desperately to make your socialist
nanny look appealing eh?

You're still paying tax to the government on supplies and AGAIN on the
final price. That you get to keep the windfall for a little while
doesn't mean the consumer avoided paying 17.5% on your material costs
and 17.5% on your final selling price.

Yes, unfortunately. But the they top out at 8% or so in a worse case
scenario. Most places charge far less if anything at all.

And thanks to our Prayerful President Bush we are in the process of
gutting out this nonsensical welfare state nonsense.