#USpol #Norway #taxes #tax

[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.