In Denmark when you work at McDonalds you get 22€ an hour and 6 weeks paid vacation and other benefits. It could be done in the US too. The reason it is not is greed.
Do you really believe that Americans would all agree to pay over 50% in federal taxes? Not likely.
9 Myths About Denmark DESTROYED
By
H. Roland J. on APRIL 8, 2016
Myth #1: Danes get 90% of their old salary for 2 years when they become unemployed.
That does sound good, doesn’t it? Well, if you believe this myth I have some alien artifacts to sell you. Of course the danish
government doesn’t give anyone more than anyone else – everyone is equal, of course – and while
some people actually
can get up to 90% of their former salary, there are a lot of things preventing this – and it is a
private transaction between the unemployed and his “A-Kasse”.
Myth #2: Denmark spends far less on Healthcare than the US
Actually, yes. Our underpaid nurses, poor quality healthcare and long waitinglists for surgery is actually far less expensive than the american solution. It’s true. Finally a
truth; danish healthcare is in fact cheaper than the american equalent. Yay, Denmark!
The fact it’s worthless to the patient shouldn’t matter. People receiving poor healthcare and being forced to pay for it and not able to take another alternative shouldn’t matter
because it’s cheaper! It worked so well in the Soviet Union, didn’t it?
Please note the sarcasm.
Myth #5: Denmark pays students money to study
Yup, everyone pays for students, but less than Kontanthjælp (wellfare). Some sites cite $900, but the actual amount depends on your parent’s income, where you live and how old you are. It also depends on what you’re studying and what semester you’re doing.
If you’re becoming an academic, sure, you get up to $900 per month from the government. It’s called SU – short for Statens Uddannelsesstøtte, which translates into “Government Educationsupport” – but only if you’re not living at home with your parents and are over a certain age.
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Besides, no one can make a living with an income of only $900 in Denmark. Most take a huge loan on the side
and a job to make ends meet and those who choose this way of life don’t need the extra money
everyone else is paying for over their taxes.
The SU is not
free – it’s paid for by everyone else.
Myth #6: Denmark has the highest per capita income in the world
Of course we do! Whenever we make a Krone we give
half to the government, so sure; we make the most money because we can only keep half, and have to give a fifth of the remaining income whenever we spend the money we get to keep. You better fucking believe we demand a ridiculous income since we don’t get to keep most of it!
Everything in Denmark is taxed, even the fucking taxes are taxed!
So yeah, it’s true we are highly paid but
we don’t get the money; our government takes most of it and demands we’re happy about it! If an American company wanted to employ me as a writer they would have to pay me around twice as much as they would an American writer, because I have taxes to pay!
Myth #7: Denmark has one of the lowest poverty rates in the world
Sure, but we are also the least likely to be charitable through voluntary means because we feel we have already paid enough for charity. We don’t do charity because we have already paid for everyone else.
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Myth #9: Paid family leave for 52 weeks
Yes, the danish government demands that companies still pay for a women who leaves their company for a year to stay at home with her child. They start paying
before she has given birth and then keep paying for her
and the employee who assumes her position in the company during her leave. The government demands this of the company and will in some cases help pay for her, but it’s still expensive for the company, who loses their employee for a year or so and of course have to replace her during this period.
Imagine that you have an employee you’re very happy with and then she get’s pregnant. She leaves your company and you
still have to pay her salaray while she’s away for a
year. You have to find a new employee to take her place and pay that employee as well. You’re paying for 1½ employee for the same work!
Fair? Hell no, but that is of no concern in your average social democraZy. It’s not like you have to
think before you plan a family and you can’t fire or even
not hire a woman because she might end up costing you 1½ salaries. You cannot fire her for being pregnant nor can you ask “do you intend to have a child in the near future” during the job interview.
Nothing in a Social DemocraZy structure is fair nor is it efficient. The things that actually work and make sense are created and run by
private interests and the things that do not are run by the government. If you’re actually a believer in socialism you
should enact a lot of these things but
only with
other socialists of similar beliefs and not force other people to be part of it.
And stop lying and twisting the truth. You might believe in these lies and myths, but
reality is very, very different. I actually
live in your dreamworld and believe me; it’s
not what it’s cracked up to be for
everyone else.
If you want social democraZy in your government I truly believe your either a fool or actually
evil.
Some people think that if you repeat a lie for long enough it will eventually become truth. It doesn’t, of course, and whenever someone touts the same bullshit in order to make it “the truth” I have a steady job of speaking out against it. Perhaps I can make a living off writing these...
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