Originally Posted By: willametteriveroutlaw
 Originally Posted By: Jerry Garcia
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I'll say this once again. Our health care package where I work is negociated as part of a total wage package. Nothing is "given" to us, we defer wages into the health care package.



Then why are wages on average lower in Socialist countries (i.e. sweden france etc) than the US?



Not sure what that has to do with my point, but on to your question. Because of the higher rate of vacations and time off in European countries that means that there are more hours paid for that are not actual work hours, because of the end price of the manufactured item is basically fixed it means that the price for a hour of labor most be less to carry the burden of more time off.
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