i am in favor of rich people paying high taxes..but 60% is way too much. I mean NL is a communistic country after all?

By kos | January 21, 2010 2:41 PM

typcial CDA worldview. We must balance our books, nobody can live in debt? No, well Mr Balkenellende and Woutertje, take a look around you. When times are tough, governments go into debt. As long as there's a sensible medium-term plan to reduce the defecit, we can handle a year or so of unbalanced books.

But if that 35bn must be found somewhere, how about scrapping the JointStrike fighter rubbish and perhaps levying proper taxes on businesses in NL. Why is it always the man in the street who has to pay?

The 52% tax rate kicks in at just over 50.000 euro - that's hardly a rich-mans salary

By taxmonkey | January 21, 2010 3:58 PM

I agree, 60% is another form of pure greed and should not be tolerated. The rich cannot be punished for being successful. To pay fair taxes okay, but not destroy them and their wealth and bring them to the poor house, that is going too far.

By sandra | January 22, 2010 5:59 AM

How about taxing the Royal family and stop giving them taxpayer money?
That would be a start....

By Hilary | January 22, 2010 8:02 AM

Here's an idea....Stop welfare for the wealthy....Everyone has a tax burden in this country, and this should include the royal family. We see the tax rate going up year after year, and read about the royal family of nl depositing massive sums of money offshore in tax shelters....
Wake up folks, this money should be taxed as well to reduce the burden on us all.......
The tax payers shouldn't have to pay for their cost of living large either. If the tax were more evenly spread across all incomes, instead of middle class people accepting an even higher tax burden, for nothing in return is unexceptable...

By Roberto | January 22, 2010 8:28 AM

exactly Hilary, that Royal family is such a waste of our taxes!

By johnny | January 22, 2010 11:57 AM

Focus on ways to attract more tourists!
Gee! WE love to visit your lovely country, but greed and mismanagement has hit the Americas hard! Also, I want to get the most bang for my buck, too! The airlines need to revamp their planes and think about improvements in COACH. Make us more comfortable and we will fly in your planes! Oh! Yeah! I was in your country this year and was shocked by the rude attendant as we were embarking on the plane.(Delta).
really tacky for the airline to design a plane where the coach people and 1st class have to funnel out one door and you make the coach people wait. Hey! I am just as good as a first class ticket, maybe even better!!!!! Thanks for listening, got carried away on my soap box! Ha! Ha! Good Day!

By Tana Bouquet | January 22, 2010 3:15 PM

Thank god I live in Canada, where the maximum tax rate is 42%. And we here bitch and complain like f**k that even that rate is way to high

By Chris leenders | January 24, 2010 9:18 PM