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Small businesses flourish in the EU. Have you ever been there? I've seen more small businesses in a town of 24,000 people than I did in Harrisburg, York, and Lancaster, PA. Travel broadens the mind
I really don't care what they do there, they don't have any choice in the matter.
Freedom is what opens the mind.
If the United States brought the Nordic labor system in America.... Would you be for or against it?
Some employee and other benefits in Sweden;
* 18 months paid maternity leave
* $160/month for every child until age of 16 or until completing high school
* Free dental and health care until age of 18
* 5 weeks of paid vacation annually for all workers + lots of paid sick days
* Free school and school lunch for all students
If it's government mandated, I'm 100% against it.
If it's benefits offered by businesses because they choose to, I'm 100% for it.
Small businesses flourish in the EU. Have you ever been there? I've seen more small businesses in a town of 24,000 people than I did in Harrisburg, York, and Lancaster, PA. Travel broadens the mind
Then you obviously have never been out of your hometown.
Bloated, wasteful government spending is the problem. We provide the same range of services that most EU countries do in a very wasteful, inefficient matter. Paid vacation and family leave is not taxpayer supported, the onus is on the employer
Our taxes are much lower though. My cousin has a friend that got married and moved to Sweden and the way she explained it was they make less money when she works because of taxes. Then again, they have a strict immigration and citizenship policy as well as a generous welfare state.
We are an Empire and need to spend far too much on our military and bloated government to ever be able to afford such a system. If we become a Republic again, bring our troops home, and scale back our government - then we can discuss this. I'm all for 5 weeks of vacation
WE spend money on our military like we are going to fight a alien invasion or something.
Then you obviously have never been out of your hometown.
Small businesses flourish all over the USA.
Did I say that small businesses don't flourish in the USA? No, I didn't. Go back and read my post. I said small businesses flourish in much of the EU even though they have much more regulatory and labor burdens than the US. Ergo, Europeans don't seem to have too much trouble establishing small businesses there and staying in business
If the United States brought the Nordic labor system in America.... Would you be for or against it?
Some employee and other benefits in Sweden;
* 18 months paid maternity leave
* ~ $160/month for every child until age of 16 or until completing high school
* Free dental and health care until age of 18 (or very small payment for adults)
* Free college education (Small payment for books)
* Great unemployment and retirement benefits
* 5 weeks of paid vacation annually for all workers + lots of paid sick days & holidays
* Free school and school lunch for all students
* Elderly care (Retirement homes and home care)
Unemployment rate:
Norway 3.7% -- Sweden 8.4% -- Finland 8.1% -- Denmark 7%
love it but not realistic here. the us wants to be a world empire.
us also has a population of 313 million compared to 9 million in sweden
And they are quite homogenous, as well.
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