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oscar111 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-03-06 01:49 PM
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Income FLOOR: Belgium
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Edited on Mon Jul-03-06 02:07 PM by oscar111
if i read it right, this post says that Belgium has an income floor, as once was proposed here in the US, late sixties. Was called "reverse income tax" if i rightly recall my history book. The lower your income on the tax forms, the more money the gov. was to give you once you filed the tax form.

Belgians, any comments on this to inform us a bit more?

See the Democrats Abroad Forum, post titled "oh god how i want to leave" or similar words. See reply 11. below is a paste of most of it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=194&topic_id=450&mesg_id=450

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3 adoption and marriage for all , state stipends to boot
4 Universal health care , free from personal expense , apart from a contribution paid either by state or employing company
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Number 6. --- Residents , all of them , get welfare , a meager 950 $ , per person

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7 we're run by the banking interests , no nasty security aparatus
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11 americans are well liked , part of our grass is always greener syndrome
12 our dialect is to french , what aussie is to english



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