Time for a new I hate Norway post, Insurrance and car prices Options

[Illyont]

Car used for calculations: 05' Toyota Corolla 4 door with 1.4 litre diesel engine and 90 hp (about 66 kW).


2 500$ US every single year for insurrance alone. Along with a pricetag on about 40 000$ US for the car (brand new that is, but still). Celica would be 3 000 - 3 500$ US every year.. Only for insurrance.

That's like.. Half the price you guys have to pay for the Celica itself in the US. Sometimes I can't understand what the government are thinking. I just get sooo pissed off when I discover things like this.

And I pay 37% tax from everything I earn. And when I use my money to buy something, I pay 25% on top of the price in taxes. So first they take 37% of my money before I even get them. Then when I decide to use the 63% that is left, they take another 25% because I buy something. That leaves me with 38% of my hard earned money...

Then I pay 500$ US every year just because I own a car. Then another 2 500$ or more for insurrance (and insurrance is mandatory in case of personal injury!). Then we have the gas prices... A crazy 7-8$ US for every gallon of gas!

And a small apartment... 100 000 - 130 000$ US (of course, you will have to pay even more taxes then.. Because you own an apartment. Just like the car, but that's another story). And btw.. When you pay for electricity in your new apartment.. Government takes about 50% of what you pay in taxes... So the electrical companies have to push their prices really high.

My 50 000$ US paycheck doesn't look so high anymore after calculating some of these things.