It's not 46% (although if you make a lot more than average in some cases it may be). However, as a Norwegian you'll never see a hospital bill. Doesn't matter if it is the birth of you child, a broken arm or open heart surgery. We're covered and don't need to worry about it. Tuition, what's that? Our education is free as well. Now, THAT is freedom.
True, but you might have to wait for 6 months to get the heart surgery.... or a year or so if your back is messed up... As a Norwegian working for a Norwegian company, the company have started buying private health insurance for all of us.... so we can get quicker treatments and get back to work. We have a good, not perfect system.
income tax defenitly not 46%, but then you ad VAT of 12 or 24% on everything we buy, extra for luxury like cars, enviromental taxes on gass and we get up there.
Ditus: Its is not. Im Norwegian. The tax is linked to how much you earn, and how much dept you have. I currently pay around 28-30%. And I pay it gladly!!
#7. Fluffy towels??? Aw, that's sweet. Let's send all 2.3 million US prisoners to Norway and see how their fluffy towel system actually works.
We can take all their strippers in exchange.
(Historical footnote: in the late 1970's President Jimmy Carter lectured Fidel Castro on human rights and immigration. Made a huge deal about it. So Castro opened his prisons and sent the worst of the worst to Florida. Thousands of murderers, drug dealers, and rapists were absorbed into our population without vetting. It's not mentioned in history books now, but it happened.)
Claes, USA never heard of REHABILITATION? Of turning people to become a valued citizen of the country? No... All they've heard is punishment, guns, more agression, and gangs. Your way... enjoy.
Mickey, I live in a country with socialised medicine. My 93 year old father was aggressively treated for lung/brain/skin/prostate cancer over a period of 10 years up to his death recently.
Norway is truly an fantastic country in many ways. As born in Sweden with a Swedish father and an Norwegian mother, I wish that Sweden could be more like Norway.
Yes there are people of color in Norway. But most of them got here after 1965, so I have worked with people telling me stories about the first time they met a person of color.
As an American - Hell yeah, good for them! Ignore those negative remarks. We could learn a lot. Just because we are huge in size doesn't mean we are the best at everything, and the way to be best is look at all the different examples in the world and see what works. Being a huge country makes it more difficult to do most things efficiently. And as a Texas. :-) I'll take crazy
It's not to make fun of today's Texans, it's more like a reference to the wild west. I.e. one could just as easy use the term "It was like the wild west" to describe a situation like a bar brawl or any similar chaotic event.
It's not 46% (although if you make a lot more than average in some cases it may be). However, as a Norwegian you'll never see a hospital bill. Doesn't matter if it is the birth of you child, a broken arm or open heart surgery. We're covered and don't need to worry about it. Tuition, what's that? Our education is free as well. Now, THAT is freedom.
True, but you might have to wait for 6 months to get the heart surgery.... or a year or so if your back is messed up... As a Norwegian working for a Norwegian company, the company have started buying private health insurance for all of us.... so we can get quicker treatments and get back to work. We have a good, not perfect system.
income tax defenitly not 46%, but then you ad VAT of 12 or 24% on everything we buy, extra for luxury like cars, enviromental taxes on gass and we get up there.
Ditus: Its is not. Im Norwegian. The tax is linked to how much you earn, and how much dept you have. I currently pay around 28-30%. And I pay it gladly!!
#7. Fluffy towels??? Aw, that's sweet. Let's send all 2.3 million US prisoners to Norway and see how their fluffy towel system actually works.
We can take all their strippers in exchange.
(Historical footnote: in the late 1970's President Jimmy Carter lectured Fidel Castro on human rights and immigration. Made a huge deal about it. So Castro opened his prisons and sent the worst of the worst to Florida. Thousands of murderers, drug dealers, and rapists were absorbed into our population without vetting. It's not mentioned in history books now, but it happened.)
Claes, USA never heard of REHABILITATION? Of turning people to become a valued citizen of the country? No... All they've heard is punishment, guns, more agression, and gangs. Your way... enjoy.
Mickey, I live in a country with socialised medicine. My 93 year old father was aggressively treated for lung/brain/skin/prostate cancer over a period of 10 years up to his death recently.
Norway is truly an fantastic country in many ways. As born in Sweden with a Swedish father and an Norwegian mother, I wish that Sweden could be more like Norway.
Yes there are people of color in Norway. But most of them got here after 1965, so I have worked with people telling me stories about the first time they met a person of color.
As an American - Hell yeah, good for them! Ignore those negative remarks. We could learn a lot. Just because we are huge in size doesn't mean we are the best at everything, and the way to be best is look at all the different examples in the world and see what works. Being a huge country makes it more difficult to do most things efficiently. And as a Texas. :-) I'll take crazy
It's not to make fun of today's Texans, it's more like a reference to the wild west. I.e. one could just as easy use the term "It was like the wild west" to describe a situation like a bar brawl or any similar chaotic event.
True, but you might have to wait for 6 months to get the heart surgery.... or a year or so if your back is messed up...
As a Norwegian working for a Norwegian company, the company have started buying private health insurance for all of us.... so we can get quicker treatments and get back to work.
We have a good, not perfect system.
income tax defenitly not 46%, but then you ad VAT of 12 or 24% on everything we buy, extra for luxury like cars, enviromental taxes on gass and we get up there.
We can take all their strippers in exchange.
(Historical footnote: in the late 1970's President Jimmy Carter lectured Fidel Castro on human rights and immigration. Made a huge deal about it. So Castro opened his prisons and sent the worst of the worst to Florida. Thousands of murderers, drug dealers, and rapists were absorbed into our population without vetting. It's not mentioned in history books now, but it happened.)
USA never heard of REHABILITATION? Of turning people to become a valued citizen of the country? No... All they've heard is punishment, guns, more agression, and gangs. Your way... enjoy.
Good point, except you're wrong.
Yes there are people of color in Norway.
But most of them got here after 1965, so I have worked with people telling me stories about the first time they met a person of color.
We could learn a lot. Just because we are huge in size doesn't mean we are the best at everything, and the way to be best is look at all the different examples in the world and see what works. Being a huge country makes it more difficult to do most things efficiently.
And as a Texas. :-) I'll take crazy
It's not to make fun of today's Texans, it's more like a reference to the wild west.
I.e. one could just as easy use the term "It was like the wild west" to describe a situation like a bar brawl or any similar chaotic event.