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Income tax is one thing, social security is another and the taxes your employer pays as business are another. You're just conflating them all. Some countries have lower social security contributions but have no universal health insurance or you just have to pay out of pocket or it's tied to your work, etc. It's not apples to apples

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Sánchez responds to Trump: "Trade policy is directed from Brussels." (www-lavanguardia-com.translate.goog)

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From the EU capital, the president claims that Spain is a country that is "solidary" with NATO, but also "sovereign."

Trump Threatens to Double Spanish Tariffs Over NATO Spending in c/europe@feddit.org

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Taxes I agree. They are proportionately larger than in most of the EU, and services worse.

They are actually below average

https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/05/16/personal-average-tax-rates-in-europe-which-countries-saw-the-biggest-rise-in-2024

Services, I guess that's more a matter of opinion, but having lived in Germany, UK and the US, I think they're OK

Trump Threatens to Double Spanish Tariffs Over NATO Spending in c/europe@feddit.org

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nobody knows, the new agreement hasn't been published yet (or at least I can't find it on the NATO website). What's on the NATO website is the previous one and the wording is intentionally very vague, as usual in these kinds of treaties so that everyone can keep doing their thing:

Allies whose current proportion of GDP spent on defence is below this level will:

aim to move towards the 2% guideline within a decade with a view to meeting their NATO Capability Targets and filling NATO's capability shortfalls. (emphasis mine)

Trump Threatens to Double Spanish Tariffs Over NATO Spending in c/europe@feddit.org

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

mandatory to spend 2%,

It wasn't mandatory

Trump Threatens to Double Spanish Tariffs Over NATO Spending in c/europe@feddit.org

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What will Ratte call him now to appease him? Will master do the trick?

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Trump Threatens to Double Spanish Tariffs Over NATO Spending (www.bloomberg.com)

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President Donald Trump criticized Spain for not agreeing to new defense spending targets adopted by NATO and suggested the country could face tariffs twice as high from the US.
Trump stated that the US is negotiating a trade deal with Spain and threatened to make them pay twice as much, which caused Spain's benchmark stock index to extend its losses.
Spanish officials dismissed Trump's tariff threat, emphasizing that the European Commission handles trade matters for the EU and that individual member states don't negotiate trade deals on their own.

Trump praises Nato states as summit prepares to lift defence spending target in c/europe@feddit.org

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There's no appeasing a bully. He'll come back for more if you give in. And now it seems whatever moronic idea born from his late night twitter mental diarrhea festivals, Ratte is gone eat up. Still, not surprising at all, Ratte was always a rat and a hypocrite

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Trump praises Nato states as summit prepares to lift defence spending target (www.theguardian.com)

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‘Nato’s going to become very strong with us,’ says US president, as secretary general calls him ‘daddy’