Actually, Norway's a socialist nightmare. My father lives there, and I cringe every time I hear about that place. It's Dec, and you need a surgery. Oh, sorry - the budget is out. You'll just have to wait two, three more weeks until the next fiscal year.
O, need a cardiac stress test ? No problem, stick around for next 6 months on the wait list and we'll check you out. Cardiac specialist, you say ? Well, maybe another 3-6 months after your stress test. Nevermind you might have a 80% clogged major artery on your hart. You'll be fine.
Economy doing great ? O sure - as long as the oil prices are high. Other than that - there is NOTHING worth mention in terms of economy in Norway. They actually closed down refineries because they were not "clean" enough, so now, they export the oil to Sweden and import the gas back. At double the prices.
And they have about 100% sales tax rates when it's all said and done - a car (the same damn car) made in europe is twice as expensive to buy in Norway than here in US!
And the marginal tax rates are in the 50-60% range.
O yea great socialist utopia. Whatever.
I think you make many fair points. However, using the word nightmare is taking it a tad to far.
BTW: If you have seen my posts around here, you'd know that I want to see Norway shake of socialism. I doubt that will happen anytime soon though, so I'd settle for a realistic immigration policy.
Cheers.
Well you have some points, but you are going way overboard. I have been and gotten surgery right away. There are private hostpitals and clinics too. Taxes are not as high as you said. When I work Summer jobs I earned 11000 dollars in 9 weeks and paid as little as 5,33% in taxes. Before you didnt even pay taxes on your capital gains on stocks and on the money people took out as profits from the firm.