#USpol #Norway #taxes #tax

[libertyforward1@beige.party]

@faliate
I average about 8 or 9 years per set of eyeglasses.

@davidaugust

[davidaugust@mastodon.online]

@nazokiyoubinbou yeah. Same expense but no benefits.

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@nazokiyoubinbou @davidaugust Not nothing. You get a happy mad grifting king and happy vassal corporations.

[davidaugust@mastodon.online]

@WiseWoman indeed, a real bulwark against fascism.

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@faliate @davidaugust In my country exams are free and glasses and lenses are subsidized.

[pamelabarroway@mstdn.social]

@davidaugust I would happily pay more so that my son and all our kids could have this.

[mastokarl@mastodon.social]

@noplasticshower @davidaugust I assume for the majority of us 450,000,000 EU Europeans it is pretty similar. Certainly all of western Europe.

[mossman@social.vivaldi.net]

@mike @davidaugust FWIW I've had Americans joke about / make fun of our taxes and social security over here plenty of times over the years...

[nickapos@mastodon.oncrete.uk]

@Mastokarl @noplasticshower @davidaugust I know plenty of old people that would be goners in Greece if it was not for the public health system, with all its issues and delays it has kept them alive.
These are poor people living with pensions 200-300 euro per month.

[nickapos@mastodon.oncrete.uk]

@mihamarkic @faliate @davidaugust Eye tests are free in Scotland and NHS advises people to have one every 2 years.
Similarly dentist check ups cost less than 10£ with an X-ray and polish and they are also scheduled at least once per year via NHS. You can of course go in at any time if there is an emergency

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@davidaugust 💯

[kanamauna@sauropods.win]

@davidaugust

I wish for once someone would do a side by side comparison of all taxes and health costs for an average citizen of these 2 countries.

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@nickapos @faliate @davidaugust Free dentists checks and care over here in Slovenia including x rays.

[zed@mstdn.party]

@davidaugust and poor people in the US often pay a higher tax rate than poor people in Norway, because of this little trick call “progressive taxation”

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@davidaugust @nazokiyoubinbou Not same expense - there's plenty of evidence that you pay much more for less benefits. Which is not surprising, since that system is primarily a grift for private corporations to squeeze the population ever harder.

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@davidaugust “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

[twallutis@ruhr.social]

@grb090423 @davidaugust people nowadays dont care for "we", they only care for "I"

[mthaastrup@helvede.net]

@KanaMauna @davidaugust We (well I'm in Denmark, not in Norway, but same/same) also don't pay an arm and a leg for childcare...

[grb090423@mastodon.social]

@twallutis @davidaugust

Yes, there's a lot of that thinking but I'm hopeful that gradual growth of Green Party membership worldwide proves otherwise.