And? It's all about taxes, Americans don't care about anyone but themselves.

America isn’t a socialist country. Other people’s bills aren’t my problem and it’s always the people who contribute NOTHING who whine about what the rest of us allegedly owed them that!/ paid for off our backs. I didn’t sacrifice to get an education, build a career, and earn a good living, so I could pay for the poor life choices of other people.

Poor life choices? Pray, how is being born into a poor family that can‘t afford to get you into college a poor life choice?

Not a hurdle. Fewer people means fewer taxpayers.

Fewer people means also fewer expenses that would require that tax money... it all evens out regardless of how many people there are.

NOTHING is “free” in Denmark or anywhere else. Exorbitant taxes pays for it.

2/2 The OECD median for Europe is a tax rate of 34%. This includes cost of health care. The median tax rate in the US is 26%, NOT including health care. The median cost of health care in the US is 8% of gross income, which brings the total equivalent tax rate of the US to the OECD median. So when including what the US spends on health care as a percentage of income as a tax, the two tax rates are equivalent. Unlike the European nations, between 8% and 10% of the US is not covered by health insurance, so we are getting less value for the money spent. Also, the Europeans get MUCH more for their tax value in other ways: education, public transport, cellular coverage and internet are more subsidized through taxes than in the US. This means we pay more for those services as a percentage of income than Europeans. The US government also pays more for health care than any other country in the world, approximately 14% of total tax revenue goes to medical payments (made by the Federal Governme

1/2 I am not a native speaker, so it is a bit more difficult for me to find something relevant and comprihansible, but with a simple google sears I found the following. I‘m sure you will find even more, if you care. This is from https://www.quora.com/Are-total-taxes-higher-in-the-USA-or-Europe

...not to mention progressive, so people on limited income are not unnecessarily burdened while the rich swim around in their millions and light cigars with benjamins to show off on instagram. Of course to any moral being that would make murica a horrific place to actually live, which is exactly why it is. Meanwhile Denmark is one of the most idyllic places on the planet and takes amazing care of its population. Compare murican veteran life to Danish homeless life if you want. Be sure to ask the veteran and the homeless person about their lives. I promise you'll be astonished :)

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If being rich is so easy then why don’t people like you just go become rich instead of trying to stick your hands in their pockets to pay your bills? “The rich” owe you NOTHING. It’s cute you think stealing from other people to support you is moral. People in Denmark are taxed at a RIDICULOUS rate.

Not really Add in state taxes, sales taxes, fees and 99% of all healthcare & dental expenses including premiums & all co-pays. At that point we actually pay FAR more! Don't lie to yourself. Go compare budgets to someone with your job in nearly any other OECD country.

Forgot you need to self fund insurance too--huge!

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So? You should fund your own insurance. Why should your insurance be my responsibility?

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No, no we don’t. You’ll die waiting for their rationed healthcare there where the government decides whether you can live or die.

Incorrect. Someone is always SHARING.

if nothing is free why is free even a word?-my 6yo brother.

Misnomer, look it up

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Socialists are delusional. Delusional disorders are a requirement to back socialist ideology.

It does cost them money. When the person gets a higher paying job they end up paying more in taxes.

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You got that right. Pay your way and quit expecting free ride!

@david buller; Maybe I'm not understanding correctly but 75% tax on a 35.000 income is a lie. I live in the Netherlands, middle income and I pay 32%

...which is very high for that income bracket, considering commissions tax is only 34%. Muricans need to learn the meaning of the word society and stop bitching about rights if they're not willing to pool their resources to enable a government that can actually provide those rights

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The meaning of the word “society” isn’t stealing from people via government sanctioned theft to support people who don’t contribute. You have ZERO right to free healthcare or free college.

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32% is still OUTRAGEOUS.

Nosadseven does have a point.... Nobody gets shot on German campuses. Nobody gets forced to wade through a river because entitled children are boycotting a public bridge. Nobody assaults the staff, everyone has a living wage and a pension from professors to the gardeners and janitorial staff, nobody would DARE be so selfish as to demand "safe spaces", and even the food is regulated better than literally anywhere in murica. The educators are at the top of their field rather than the bottom of the employment pool, so no, it's certainly not comparable. Personally I wouldn't send my DOG to a murican school. I've been in the French Dutch English and murican educational systems for several years each (diplomat family) and I promise you, murica is the odd one out.

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Umm... No they're not. 🤣🤣🤣

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Lol that's because Germany can afford the butter cause the US taxpayers pay for Germany's guns. 🤣

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At least we can spell “America”.

Clear, concise, to the point, and SAVAGE. Tina B, you are my kind of human. CHAPEAU!

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high taxes then

Norway's tertiary education is free. Even for foreigners if they agree to work there for ... three years, I believe it was? Small price to pay for that amazing an education from a country you have no allegiance or dues to.

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Well, here in Argentina everyone can go to college and the top universities from the whole country are public and free:) private universities are subpar compared to our public ones. USA is still s**t with their education

Psssst... look at their media. The education system -- arguably more correctly spelled 'dyseducation' given the cost-to-value ratio -- is not actually trying to produce educated voters. It is trying to produce volatile simpletons that will buy what they are told to, get angry at what they're told to, swallow whatever they're fed, and abandon any level of rational thinking when button A or B are pushed. Button A is god, button B is country. Just as destructive, simplistic and inhumane as blood & honour, god & country is really just a marketing slogan. Notice the similarities between one crowd shouting yoo-ess-say and holding up a copy of the second amendment, and another crowd shouting allahu akbar and holding up a copy of the Qur'an. Same rage, same hatred, same level of intellect. They even treat their women the same, although in some states women are still allowed to vote, I hear. ....For now, at least. Much as they try to frighten everyone about islam, the white taliban is worse.

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I know! Because how DARE we demand our second amendment RIGHTS, right? Lol! If you think demanding our rights makes us uneducated then you are what you’re accusing us of being.

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It’s not “free.” Exorbitant taxes pays for it.

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Name ONE school in Argentina that anyone has heard of.... right. Good luck with that terrifying govt of yours.

You should be a lot more terrified of your own government (with either party in power). America incarcerates more of its own people (by percentage of the population) than any other country in the world, and that includes North Korea, China, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. And lack of decent education is a major reason why.

So? What’s your point? How DARE we imprison people for being criminals, right? People who turn to crime CHOOSE not to take advantage of the educational opportunities that are afforded to everyone. Crime = lots of fast money. Doing the right thing = years and years of delayed gratification.

You're a criminal, as is everybody in the US - average is three felonies per day. Stop watching propaganda for your beliefs.

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Which is why USA bails you idiots out of your most recent screw up. And they're stupid. Argentina...a garbage can.

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I will take the education in the US anyday over living in a socialist s**t hole country. Why is 25% of your population below poverty level? Nobodys education is gonna be worth anything, if they are dead from chemical warfare. Who is protecting you? Your army? Covid is just the tip of the iceberg.

I guess the American education system has stopped teaching basics like punctuation. I’d ask for my money back if I were you.

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Google Norway's population while youre at it.

Oh my... I guess my point still stands that USA is still s**t with education if they don't even teach you basic manners and how to engage with others in conversation. Perhaps i didn't make myself clear since obviously my first language isn't English, but i wasn't insulting your universities but pointing out how shitty the SYSTEM is since you get in huge debts to be properly educated when good education should be available for everyone. And just fyi, a lot of world top architects, doctors and engineers are argentinian and have graduated from our universities.

You pay EXORBITANT taxes for your entire adult life to pay for other people’s education. Just paying for our own education is exponentially cheaper. The only people who struggle to pay student debt in America are people who CHOSE a major that has NO professional value, so they can’t earn a living. That was their CHOICE. They saddled up that horse, so they can ride it.

Population is irrelevant, as both the income and the cost of basically everything is per person. The focus on population is a right wing myth. Refrain from watching anything that has fed you that kind of low, and erase all opinions that come from that kind of source.

We don't need to. We went to a proper school and know the population number has nothing to do with how their people vote, which is how their government gets in empowered to build such a marvelous and idyllic nation. Oh, and by the by, that weird sky comma in don't is called an apostrophe. Google that instead.

“Marvelous idyllic nation”. That’s funny. I’d rather be dead than live in your over taxed hell hole.

Google Norway’s tax rate. I’m not paying for your college.

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All those countries that provide free college education, Google their defense budget and Google the US defense budget. Yes, you will have a lot of money to play with when someone else is shouldering the burden of keeping you and many other nations, safe.

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Quit whining. You pay for an education to make money. Like buying a business. Don't pay 200k for a taco truck, stupid.