I'm not sure this fits under Culture, well I'd like to make a list of all the 'taxed' items in Italy--I am thinking of moving now, the taxes are so absurd, I cannot see accepting their highway robbery.

Lets make a list, can you think of something you pay taxes on besides what I just found out today...

You pay a yearly' tax on your Italian Passport of 40 euro! 'Rinnovo Anuale'

I dont want one now.

Here in California I'm paying $13,000 a year on property tax.
I own my house but this is like paying rent for Christ's sake!!!

You know, isnt it quite like the M' who goes around to NYC restaurants demanding a monthly percentage? I think the IRS has alot in common with them. No, we do not EVER really own anything do we??

Reminds me when my cousin from southeast rual Kansas came out

to visit me. I'll never forget his words. "I gotta get out of

dis Californe. You can't do nutin out here. Can't even smoke a

cigarette." He lives in a small town of 2,500 surrounded by miles

and miles of open courntry. Last time I was back there saw

a house going for $8,000. A nice house would cost around $30,000.

Just imagine how low the taxes are. They had this one new house with

a lake on it for only $300,000. Then behind the lake there

was land more land bigger than a football field.

Yeah, but you'd be living in KANSAS, for god's sake. I lived there for about 9 years, in southeast Kansas (Coffeyville). IMO, you would quickly tire of life in Kansas...

I have driven through Kansas several times. It is FLAT, FLAT, FLAT. Boring and monotonous. Besides that - it is far, far from the ocean!! I would get claustrophobic!! LOL. I hope there is no one on this forum from Kansas. I do not mean to insult anyone.

The "God Father Style" "M" went bankrupt a long time ago. The cost of living in New York City makes you feel you only work to survive. You pay taxes on taxes here.

Yeah, but you'd be living in KANSAS, for god's sake. I lived there for about 9 years, in southeast Kansas (Coffeyville). IMO, you would quickly tire of life in Kansas...

Steve, Just came back from Coffeyville yesterday. They had a terrible flood there last year. It rained a lot while I was back there this time anche.
Actually spent most of my time in the Chanute, Humboldt and Iola area. Have you been to Chanute? Chanute is about 45 minutes north of Coffeyville.

9 years in Coffeyville!!! Wow!!! How did you ever survive?!!! Suppongo you've been to that Dalton Gang museum? How could you miss that!

Funny how that whole southeast Kansas area looks a lot like parts of Italy such as Umbria, Assisi etc. etc. with those big round bales of hay e cosi via.

I have driven through Kansas several times. It is FLAT, FLAT, FLAT. Boring and monotonous. Besides that - it is far, far from the ocean!! I would get claustrophobic!! LOL. I hope there is no one on this forum from Kansas. I do not mean to insult anyone.

Jeaniegina, Southeast Kansas is very different from what most people think of when they think of Kansas. Not so flat, lots of trees,
molto deer and everything is green. 38 inches of rain a year. Rivers and streams. Plenty of clean air with no smog. Southeast Kansas
is on the border of Oklahoma, Missouri and near Arkansas. It is known as the Little Osarks. Il cuore verde d'Italia becomes Il cuore
verde d' USA. "The Green Heartland of the U.S.A." Ironicamente it is suprisingly reminiscent of many places I've been to in Italy where I
lived for 2 years and spent over a month in last summer 2007. In Assisi and other places they have those huge bales of hay just like
in Kansas and that whole mid-west USA area where I just got back from.

My mother was living on the north shore of Long Island in New York until we brought her down to Maryland to a very nice assisted living place. In NY, the maintenance and taxes on the house were killing her. Just the SCHOOL tax was $10,000 per year. Ye gods!!!!!