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Never seen a bill? Really? So you never, ever paid into it? Strange how your experience is different than others in Norway.
"In Norway on an average income we pay around 28-32%. All food items are taxed 14% except essentials and all other items are taxed 25%. 80% of petrol price is tax. Our taxes are so high because the government ‘health’ taxes us – the more you earn the more ‘health tax’ you pay no matter how healthy you are. I think a lot of Norwegians would just prefer to pay the US$500 a month rather than the extra ‘health’ tax, it would be a lot cheaper."
"Norway is one of the most heavily taxed countries in the world with a total tax burden of roughly 45% of GDP– almost 4x Hong Kong and nearly twice the US. VAT here is a whopping 25%. Personal income tax rates border 55%. Corporate profits tax ranges from 28% to as high as 78%."
But it's free, right?
I guess people never will figure out there is very little that is free.
What are you talking about? Of course you pay for your health insurance. Your gross wage is simply reduced by your employer by the corresponding cost of the health insurance. And if you get sick and lose your job, you lose your health insurance. You have to rely on the government unless you want to pay out of pocket.
The working poor can never benefit from a privatized system of health insurance as the cost of health care will not be adjusted according to ability to pay, unlike a Medicare-for-all system. The billionaire fat cat and the poor elderly widow will be charged the same price for a health care service in a privatized system.
OK, so let me get this straight...
Tax cuts for business is bad because they will just pocket the money and lay-off their employees but a tax-payer funded healthcare system replacing an employer funded system is a great idea, why?
Why not simply mandate that all employers provide health insurance?
Which should work quite well in the Rio Grande Valley, upstate South Carolina and the Mississippi Delta regions. We'll be certain to pass your suggestion along to those folks.
Duh... ever heard of roller skis?? How so you think competitive skiers train in the off season?
Majority of private sector hourly employees in Norway are Union members.
BTW, 29 states in the US have Minimum Wages higher than the Federal Minimum and they are not all blue states.
The minimum wage is not only for union workers. Around 49% of all Norwegian employees are union members.
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