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Originally Posted by Bjorn_Tasty1
I can tell you another example. When you want to live in Costa Rica with your Dutch 'government' pension they will give you only 50% of the normal amount! Cause they can't check if you are living together, they give you lesss cause they asume that you are living with a partner.... And cause you live in a land where the income is lower the Dutch government give you an extra % less off of the money you saved. It is not the other way around, when you decide to live in a land that is more expensive, they won't give you extra pension.
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that's a specific dutch thing, has nothing to do with the EU or Euro
basic line is - a government cannot spend money it doesn't have.
if you want to retire at 57, your mum too and everyone else then someone has to pay for it
and that usually means higher taxes for those who work
now we can debate endlessly how governments waste money on certain things but overall this won't change a lot - maybe 1 or 2% in the the tax rate
so that you, your family and everyone else can sit in the sun at 57 and have a nice pension, every working person and company would probably have to pay 50-60% income tax. good luck with that
and btw - this is exactly how Greece ruined itself
money is not magically being shit from some donkeys ass