#USpol #Norway #taxes #tax
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@mihamarkic @faliate @davidaugust Eye tests are free in Scotland and NHS advises people to have one every 2 years.
Similarly dentist check ups cost less than 10£ with an X-ray and polish and they are also scheduled at least once per year via NHS. You can of course go in at any time if there is an emergency@nickapos @faliate @davidaugust Free dentists checks and care over here in Slovenia including x rays.
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@davidaugust and poor people in the US often pay a higher tax rate than poor people in Norway, because of this little trick call “progressive taxation”
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@nazokiyoubinbou yeah. Same expense but no benefits.
@davidaugust @nazokiyoubinbou Not same expense - there's plenty of evidence that you pay much more for less benefits. Which is not surprising, since that system is primarily a grift for private corporations to squeeze the population ever harder.
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@davidaugust “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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I'd rather pay tax any day!
I don't understand people not wanting to pay their share of tax; we ALL benefit.
@grb090423 @davidaugust people nowadays dont care for "we", they only care for "I"
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I wish for once someone would do a side by side comparison of all taxes and health costs for an average citizen of these 2 countries.
@KanaMauna @davidaugust We (well I'm in Denmark, not in Norway, but same/same) also don't pay an arm and a leg for childcare...
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@grb090423 @davidaugust people nowadays dont care for "we", they only care for "I"
Yes, there's a lot of that thinking but I'm hopeful that gradual growth of Green Party membership worldwide proves otherwise.
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@noplasticshower @davidaugust If it’s feasible with 6M people, then it should be much more doable with over 60 times as many.
@ArtHarg @noplasticshower @davidaugust Add to that just over 6 million people in Denmark.
I definitely take home a bigger part of what I have earned here in Denmark when I calculate in health care, childcare and education for myself and my family. -
@davidaugust @nazokiyoubinbou Not same expense - there's plenty of evidence that you pay much more for less benefits. Which is not surprising, since that system is primarily a grift for private corporations to squeeze the population ever harder.
@jwcph @davidaugust I think you're probably right. For one thing, they inflate everything they can. The classic example being that a trip to the hospital means you'll see ambulance fees and stuff like "optimized nutritional supplementation" which is like $50 for a $0.25 cube of jello. (I forget exact terms they use, but it's utterly ridiculous...)
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@nazokiyoubinbou yeah. Same expense but no benefits.
Don't use that term for the RIGHTS Europeans have fought for, and which are only possible because we have democracies where the common good is not an empty phrase. That's the difference between having parliamentary representation of citizens and an oligarchy where people are hoping for "benefits" from their master, err..., employer.
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@davidaugust
Not just Norway! Many European countries also have free healthcare, free college, parental leave, and more. It’s necessary to have a well-educated, healthy population that doesn’t fall for fascists…@WiseWoman As much as I love having free healthcare, parental leave etc, people in EU countries fall for fascism every other week.
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