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America has pretty low taxes for the most part though. Here in germany we have to pay 19% VAT whereas the average sales tax in the US is somewhere around 10% I think.

Remember also that our social services (healthcare, education, etc) are terribly underfunded to have those lower taxes (never mind that even if they were properly funded, the level of incompetence would be as insane as it is now)

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Move to America.

 

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Well, America is lucky not Americans.

Now I'm in a worse spot, do you think the 980ti is even available in my country right now?

show me where the 980Ti IS available. saudi arabia isnt waiting. its not out yet.

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As a Mexican, I can relate to this. Here the Titan X costs $20000 MXN (1320 USD) with taxes included when it should cost $18000 MXN (1160 USD).

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show me where the 980Ti IS available. saudi arabia isnt waiting. its not out yet.

 

Sorry for being mistaken.

I found out about this earlier today.

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Sorry for being mistaken.

I found out about this earlier today.

it happens. i too was apparently wrong as pny DOES have  980TI available, but lol im sure we were both referring to EVGA//ASUS =]

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it happens. i too was apparently wrong as pny DOES have  980TI available, but lol im sure we were both referring to EVGA//ASUS =]

 

Yeah, we all are about Asus, EVGA, MSI and Gigabyte.

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Crazy to think that we're so "lucky," yet out national debt is $18,156,126,461,893. (As of this post.) We, as individuals may have it better in some cases, but not in all, nor the grand scheme of it all, regarding our country. 

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23% VAT in greece says Hi. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

holy hell!!!  here in state of Virginia is 5%

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Sweden says hi with 25%.

If it ain´t broke don't try to break it.

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Yeah. But we can't have the R33 or R34 GTR. Yet. Be happy those are legal there. Lucky punk

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Also some prices in Sweden:

Titan X = 1200US$

980Ti = 875US$

If it ain´t broke don't try to break it.

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Yeah. But we can't have the R33 or R34 GTR. Yet. Be happy those are legal there. Lucky punk

I use a CB1000RA Trico.

If it ain´t broke don't try to break it.

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It's because if they walk out in the middle of the road and get hit by a truck, they have to pay $999999999999 in hospital fees.

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Why are PC parts so expensive in the UK? The price of a 980ti in America is the same as a normal 980 here. A Titan X in the US is $1000, well here it is £1000 ($1537) :( I cry

 

980 ti in UAE will be at least $ 870 USD and guess what, we dont have taxes at all, at least you get health care and other good stuff from paying your taxes, here you pay extra and you dont get anything in return.

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I use a CB1000RA Trico.

I love that bike quite a bit. But the R34 GTR was sucha sexy car. Nissan did such a good job designing it

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In the UK we have 20% Vat + ~17% income tax + 13% National Insurance Contributions. So that's 50% of your income gone before you factor in all the other ways the government take money off you. Such as fuel tax, tv-license, poll tax, car tax etc. We lose around 70-80% of our total income in taxes.

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NZ has the same problem. $2000nzd - $1424.98USD for a titan x here.

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Tell us we're lucky when Hillary Clinton is calling the shots in our country. Haha.

But yeah, we get the bigger end of the stick when it comes to PC part prices.

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We're lucky in the short run but come the long run we're screwed. I imagine our $16 trillion dollar debt wouldn't be so high if we taxed on par with the rest of the world.

 

I feel for you all though. I couldn't imagine having to pay the prices you all do.

 

If it makes you feel any better... Just remember we're hated by pretty much everyone! lol.

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Even if we are lucky for having cheaper components... Texas is like a pool right now, and we still have to deal with Detroit.

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