7thKeeper
Scion of the Devonian Sea
- Jul 8, 2006
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Would still like to hear you concede that you were wrong in your claims about Danish taxes as you painted your number to be some sort of overall number, which it isn't.I know you love it there. That's good. You can enjoy all your high taxes and stuff.
Let's take me for example. How much do I pay in income tax? About 27% overall. This is why you don't just post the percentage of the highest bracket of a progressive tax system and yell "high taxes!". And speaking of "stuff", we'd need to actually include that in these conversations. Since those taxes pay for healthcare and education among others, they aren't paid for separately. That leaves actual disposable income, from what I remember from a few years ago, on similar or better levels in Nordics (as the systems are fairly similar there) compared to middle or lower income families in the US. This does flip when talking about high income families in the US.
They can, though naturally as societies are different, the solution might need tuning. And I remember some discussions on those things here, the price increases certainly didn't seem to be related. They didn't match the increases and prices have increased even without salary hikes and in placed where the new minimum wage law doesn't apply.You know they raised the minimum wages in California to $20 an hour for a bunch of workers and guess what happened. A bunch of workers lost their jobs or got their hours cut and prices went up for the food. The problem is people think whatever works in other countries will work in the US.
Yes, and these need to be taken into consideration. I never understand the population amount arguement though, scale/capability move hand in hand. And of we look state by state basis, the difference is even smaller.Denmark has a population of about 4 million while the US has 330 million. And the culture is quite different here, and the laws are different. The US is FAR removed from the Danish culture.
I don't think there's that much radical difference though, at least on this topic. The major difference is how widespread workers unions are. That's really the major difference on this topic.Now, I will say the Danish culture sounds very good. The US would have to radically change it's culture in order to follow the Danish way. Until Americans are willing to do that we are not going to be able to match what the Danes have done. And when I say change I mean alter our Constitution, Government, Systems, demands upon the citizens, homogeneity and I could go on. Simply claiming "the Danes do it" is a myopic point of view and shows a total lack of understanding the differences between the two countries. I know you that's not what you are saying. I am addressing others who want to think all we have to do is be like the Danes without having a clue what it means to be a Dane vs what it means to be an American.
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