Paul__B:
Jantje:
rofl you are not living in Belgium ]Clearly not.
Now of course you have pretty much free health care and low unemployment as a result, which I believe is different to the USA. Perhaps there is a connection.
I wouldn't dare to complain about Belgium Heath Care (indeed with capitals). It is accessible, fast, good and affordable. If you ever needed urgent medical care in Belgium you know. Getting out of the hospital with a bill of 400 euro's is considered expensive here.
I know the USA has a different numbers.
Low unemployment??? As to the cia https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/be.html
the unemployment rate increased to 8.8%
And these figures have been "cleaned" (fake employment, to many government workers,...). This official Belgian graph is cleaned and higher http://www.werk.be/cijfers/trends-en-conjunctuur
IMHO Belgium government nearly only taxes employees (I take home around 1/3 of what my employer pays for me) which makes employees expensive and as such increases unemployment.
Which again decreases government income and increases government spending (due to increased welfare costs)
Which makes Belgium government to increase taxes on employees .....
I'm not complaining but something will have to give way one day. I'm not qualified to predict whether this day is near or far away.
Best regards
Jantje