Is Norway a socialist state?

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What if the hard working taxpayers actually want to get something from the taxes they pay?

And what about the hardworking taxpayers who don't want to pay for these programs and for the leeches?

Cut their taxes and spending and get the government out of many of the programs.
 

Vic

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And what about the hardworking taxpayers who don't want to pay for these programs and for the leeches?

Cut their taxes and spending and get the government out of many of the programs.

You mean like roads, schools, police, courts, and military? Those leeches?
 
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No, You don't have a right to other peoples money. Since you're a liberal ignoramus you also forgot the higher tax rates required, Why did you forget to mention that?

While I realize that I'm answering the 'macro king', for others out there, my tax rates (federal and provincial) as a single person are pretty close to what an 'average' American in the same income range would have. We can say this is a mid-middle class income

I think I'm pretty safe in saying I get a heck of a lot more back from both levels of government in terms of services and support (i.e. our single payer health insurance system, unemployment insurance system, Canada Pension Plan) for those taxes than that same 'average' American gets from their federal and state governments.
 

Vic

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Keep spouting your leftist BS. You truly are an idiot. I didn't object to those things. I was talking about welfare and entitlements.

The overwhelming bulk of entitlements are paid by the prior taxes of the recipients. I've been paying FICA for almost 30 years. If you want to get rid of Social Security, then I want my money back, asshole.
 
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The overwhelming bulk of entitlements are paid by the prior taxes of the recipients. I've been paying FICA for almost 30 years. If you want to get rid of Social Security, then I want my money back, asshole.

Alright so you definitely are a moron.
 

Vic

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Alright so you definitely are a moron.

What? No macro for this one?

Let me clue you in something: you're the thief using government to steal other people's money. Taxpayers spend their whole lives paying into the system, and you're the asshole trying to make sure they get as little of that back as possible.
 

norseamd

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Keep spouting your leftist BS. You truly are an idiot. I didn't object to those things. I was talking about welfare and entitlements.

and you are fucking lying your ass off

the far right wing extremists already started to attack public education last year during the election

you would go with them
 

biostud

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And what about the hardworking taxpayers who don't want to pay for these programs and for the leeches?

Cut their taxes and spending and get the government out of many of the programs.

Well, at our last parliament election we had a voting percentage of 86,6, out which 5 percent voted for the only party who really wanted to lower the taxes significantly.

So 95 percent of the voters want a welfare system paid by high taxes.
 

Matt1970

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Funny, the taxes that are needed for our countries to function seem to be being collected just fine and there aren't anti-tax riots in the streets either.

So, just what is it that you think is the problem again?

btw, what is this 'free' you're referring to? Because we citizens of these countries know damn well what our taxes are being used for.

Well when you have people who basically have zero tax liability complaining how things are unfair, odds are they aren't going to go for any kind of tax hikes unless it's on the rich. Those countries didn't get what they have from taxing the rich, they tax EVERYBODY.
 

biostud

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Well when you have people who basically have zero tax liability complaining how things are unfair, odds are they aren't going to go for any kind of tax hikes unless it's on the rich. Those countries didn't get what they have from taxing the rich, they tax EVERYBODY.

But, those with the highest incomes gets taxed harder, which gives us a very large middle class, few super rich and few poor.
 

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Is it true or is it just stereotype that a lot of Swedish woman are gorgeous blue-eyed blondes?

Media stereotype. It's true that a lot of Swedish women are blue-eyed blondes, but a lot of them are stocky, big-boned farmer types. I know. I even slept with two of them. At the same time.
 
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Well, at our last parliament election we had a voting percentage of 86,6, out which 5 percent voted for the only party who really wanted to lower the taxes significantly.

So 95 percent of the voters want a welfare system paid by high taxes.

Doesn't matter. Just because the majority vote to violate the rights of the minority doesn't mean it's right.
 

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Capitalism is superior to socialism. Socialism is a complete violation of freedom but it doesn't surprise me at all that the propagandists defend this idiotic idea.

well, socialism "done right" have lots of capitalism too :p
 

KMFJD

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STFU You socialist scumbag. Go get yourself teabagged. You're a coward who hides behind his computer.

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Lepton87

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If socialism is so bad and pure capitalism is the only way to go, why countries with some of the highest effective tax rates are also some of the best countries to live in the world? Why are Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland so successful?