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Should America be more like Scandinavia? How would it look like if we were?
What do you think?
* 5 - 6 weeks paid vacation for all workers
* Very long paid maternity/parental leave (18 months in Sweden)
* Less working hours
* Small gap between rich and poor
* Very low poverty
* Free national health care
* Free school/college
* High GDP per capita & low unemployment rate
Yes, nothing is free. Their taxes are high, but then again universal health care is something they demanded, and would not trade for any other kind of health care system, so it works for them. It would not work here when we have half the population speaking against it.
Yes, nothing is free. Their taxes are high, but then again universal health care is somthing they demaded, and would not trade for any other kind of health care system, so it works for them. It wouild not work here when we have half the population speaking against it.
Overall tax burdens (as a percentage of GDP) are among the world's highest; Sweden (51.1%), Denmark (46% in 2011),[9] and Finland (43.3%), compared to non-Nordic countries like Germany (34.7%), Canada (33.5%), and Ireland (30.5%).
That's downright scary, over half of your GDP for your tax burden.
Being Nordic is not related to the language being Germanic, or even the Austrians would be Nordic, but of course Finland has two official languages, and the other one is actually Germanic.
Nordic is a specific language subgroup of Germanic. Finnic is a completely different language branch. If I remember right, it's not even Indo-European.
That's downright scary, over half of your GDP for your tax burden.
We are not far behind if you factor in property tax, and what we spend on health care. As a matter of fact, we are paying more than them. I am not counting education, because you don't have to go to school, but if you add that in the mix, we pay a lot more than them.
Nordic is a specific language subgroup of Germanic. Finnic is a completely different language branch. If I remember right, it's not even Indo-European.
Then I suppose there are many difference definitions on what "Nordic" means, but if you are right, the Austrians, Swiss, British, Australians, South Africans and even Americans and Canadians are Nordic countries.
PS. German is Indo-European language.
The truth is that there are five Nordic countries: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland.
And again, the second official language spoken in Finland (Swedish) is a Germanic language, but the language does not define whether or not a country is a Nordic country.
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The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Svalbard and Ã…land. In English, "Scandinavia" is sometimes used as a synonym for the Nordic countries (often excluding Greenland), but that term more properly refers only to Denmark, Norway and Sweden
The region's five nation-states and three autonomous regions share much common history as well as common traits in their respective societies, such as political systems and the Nordic model. Politically, Nordic countries do not form a separate entity, but they co-operate in the Nordic Council. The Nordic countries have a combined population of approximately 25 million spread over a land area of 3.5 million km² (Greenland accounts for around 60% of the total area).
Corporate greed would never allow these benefits to materliaze in the US! Just look at how the Pukes are crying about raising the Minimum wage in the US.
Then I suppose there are many difference definitions on what "Nordic" means, but if you are right, the Austrians, Swiss, British, Australians, South Africans and even Americans and Canadians are Nordic countries.
PS. German is Indo-European language.
The truth is that there are five Nordic countries: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland.
And again, the second official language spoken in Finland (Swedish) is a Germanic language, but the language does not define whether or not a country is a Nordic country.
No they're not, Nordic is a specific subgroup of Germanic. The Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic languages are a part of this subgroup but German is not. They're all part of the much more general Germanic group though which Finnish is not.
A Norwegian can understand a Swede but cannot make heads or tails of Finnish.
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