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Originally posted by Adeptus
I would hope that you are not suggesting private employers in Belgium take in consideration family size to decide how much to pay people for the same work.
no
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Originally posted by AdeptusOr, perhaps, are you referring to after tax money and the difference in taxation based on family status?
yes..
if you live alone, have children (and their age), are married, etc is all taken into consideration.
Here we pay little for health care, social security etc, it is in the form of taxes and stuff. It is a better system as eg USA where extremely many people don't even have health care or can't afford it and sometimes they even don't help you out if you can't show some insurance papers and stuff. Health care here is almost as good as free, for everybody, the drawback is that everybody pays a little bit for everybody so paychecks are always a lot bigger (gross amount) than what you actually get (net amount).
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