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Originally Posted by fidstar-poker
So in one post you talk about how high the wages are and then the next post you say you don't know why the local beer costs so much
I was referencing USA#1 in regards to wages I was under the belief (maybe wrongly so) that many european countries have similar minimum wages to ours. I can understand your point being true for something like imported Corona with the wages being even worse in mexico.
Lets take Holland (heineken) for example according to our friend google their minimum wage is roughly 400 euros a week which converted is close enough to 15AUD an hour. Our minimum wage is oh about 16AUD an hour.
Then it has to be shipped to australia and one would believe taxed similarly to a domestic beer (which being Australian you should know we are taxed out the ass on alcohol).
Nice try but I don't think a $1 an hour saving in labour (not inclusive of shipping) is going to make something cheaper here than something produced locally if the same taxes are applied.
Also imported Corona is the same price (if not more expensive half the time) than imported Heineken so your argument is kinda ******ed
Last edited by PasswordGotHacked; 11-21-2015 at 07:23 PM.
Reason: Maybe I'm misguided and shipping something that is 8kg is free to the other side of the world or they pay us