I have to say that you dont have a clue about world tax or salary levels if you dare to say that? Where have you heard it, or are you just another self centred american idiot, who believes everything turns around US and that all Bush claims is true? Wake up kid...
Tell me, how much BigMc cost in USA? How much you pay for Subaru STI or for a beer? Let me tell you, American employee in my position (Sales Director) earn in my position and segment about 9000 Euros / month (have many collegues and they earn even more). In Finland the same person earns appr. 5.000 euros. In USA you pay around 35% taxes, in Finland I pay around
40% + 5% for "labour costs". It means that when I have a nett salary around 2.700 euros, there you have around 6.000 Euros. This is more than twice more.... but its not the whole truth....BigMac there is aroud 1 US dollar, In Finland its 3 US dollars. WRX in USA is 24.700 US dollars, in Finland it is 50.200 US dollars. So to be able to buy WRX in Finland you need 18.6 x your nett salary to be able to buy one. In USA you need 4.11 x nett salary. If you have any brains left, this means that your buying power is over 4.5 times against the one we have here.
Next time when you shout something that you really dont know anything about, please for give me not to believe you. And if it has to do with cars, your opinion is not worth a chicken shit..... have you even seen an STI in real?