Dear Europe, please wake up

For someone who's single/unmarried, $300k is under the peak brackets, which is above $578,125 for federal, and above $312,686 for California, so you'd only pay the progressive rate of 35% Federal and 9.3% California for a total of 44.3%. My math says you'd pay $101,790.74 in total, which makes for an effective tax rate of 33.93% on someone single making $300k/yr.

(Assuming I did my spreadsheet right. I'm not a CPA, and definitely not yours!)

> Lastly lets talk about employees, you hire someone and they don't work. In Europe you cannot just term them and give them a severance package of a few weeks.

This is not true! If a newly hired employee does not work, then you can fire them immediately.

salary doesn't mean much in the vacuum without considering costs of living ... my cost of living in Czechia is a fraction to life in US ... with $300 a month, I can cover my social insurance, health insurance and taxes, and then I am free ... and whatever I need from health care has no additional costs, from a full bag of meds every month, through psychotherapy to big a and serious operations, no other income taxes either, and I will get a small pension too when I retire

as for firing employees, many tech workers are not employees but contractors, conditions about the job are set by the company in the begining ... also what I noticed that US workers can and will quit on the spot if they decided so ... the othe side of the coin with EU employees is that they won't and can't do this ... the employer can rely on this ... if they are given notice and fired, they will responsibly continue working for the law mandated X months, so that the employer has time to replace them, and they will train their replacement and do proper handover ... at least from what i've seen, americans in tech once they learn they are being let go, they drop everything and are gone

the EU way isn't that one-sided towards the employee, it has implications both ways ... and if you don't like the protections and stability, just get the person on contract instead, which many smaller startups do, as they don't want to be locked into their decisions too much

> 9% is low in three ways: lower than most western european countries, lower than many countries with a thriving IT

Same question as before:

where are you taking your stats?

Foreign born population in Italy is around 10% of the total, it is similar to similar countries in a similar position: France, Greece, Portugal.

We also do not count naturalized foreign-born and children born here, while other countries do.

But you're still missing the point: those millions of foreign born living in Italy have little to none tech literacy.

I have used the 9% measure because I assume that the remaining 1% are people who have some tech literacy.

In Germany there are (officially) 700 thousand Italians, unofficially it's 2 times that. They count in Germany as foreign born, but are highly educated immigrants, while immigration in Italy, given its geographical position, is mostly lower/no education immigrants.

> lower than many countries with a thriving IT industry

replace many with some. For example in UK officially 12.7% by the latest census data of 2011 of the population is foreign born, except they often times count as foreign born people born outside of the UK and their direct descendants. Which mostly is people from the former colonies. But also 6% of the total (or 50% of that 12% are people from the EU)

The foreign-born will include some people who are born abroad to UK citizen parents. However, it is usually still the preferred definition when using data on the migrant population, and especially change in the population over time.

Moreover, data on non-UK citizens also include many UK-born children of migrants who have themselves never migrated.

At the time of the UK census conducted in April 2001, 8.3 per cent of the country's population were foreign-born. This was substantially less than that of major immigration countries such as Australia (23 per cent), Canada (19.3 per cent) and the USA (12.3 per cent)

Wasn't UK already a tech hub in 2001? Am I wrong?

Last but not least, according to Statista Romanian annual average salary is around 20,000 (19,139) Euro while in Italy is 31,500 Euro.