Morbid for students

I'm Scandinavian too, but only by blood. If only my great grand parents had fucking stayed in Norway.

i love traveling to danmark because it's so fucking cheap.

Dude, you know nothing. We earn 20 times more then you guys, yet the prices are only twice as high. It's all about GNP (Gross National Product). But hell, stay in Denmark. We can make twice as much as you, and buy it for the same low prices they have in Sweden or Denmark. We rock, you suck :) But enjoy your expensive stay in Denmark ;)

Your intellect is weak.

What you give up for enormous taxation on everything is the ability to do everything.

If you would give up free health care, free schools and generally free money so that you can waste it on beer you need to rethink your priorities.

But then again, you're a funnyjunk regular so you might not be smart enough to understand what it means to think ahead.

How is his intellect weak? If he's a healthy person who rarely takes advantage of the free health care, and is already done school, he's simply losing money through taxation.

Enormous taxation takes away the incentive to be successful as an individual, since everything is handed to you by the government.

Simply thinking that the fact that you exist gives you the right to luxury a naive way of thinking.

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" - John F. Kennedy

Bring forth the red thumbs!

I'm speaking as a Scandinavian that currently has great health, goes to college/uni for free, is living with his parents and sister.

I haven't gone to the doctor in more than 4 years (had the flu and needed some antibiotics prescribed), other from that I have great health. Only one of my parents work and he doesn't have a college degree. Despite the "huge" taxation still we have money to go on vacation almost every summer, buy unneeded items (Videogames, and other electronic devices), etc.

Even people with good health can suffer accidents. If you don't have insurance, do you think any insurance company is going to accept that you start paying AFTER you've suffered any kind of accident?.

People around here still want to be successful, they still have ambition, for example: Stefan Persson, worth (according to forbes) around 26 Billion USD occupying the 8th position in the Forbes list.

You want to know what my family is doing for my country? They are paying taxes so everyone has the same opportunities, and still, we feel as free as we could be.

First of all, I wonder whether your family works in a public sector, or private sector job.

Interesting how you bring up Stefan Persson as a person with ambition, considering he inherited his company after his father. The company H & M was formed before the high tax, before 1950.

As for people who suffer accidents, you don't need free health care for life threatening situations, or many other injuries in a country such as USA. Hospitals will still admit you. They may turn you down if it's non-life threatening and you don't have insurance, but its not common.

H&M started making serious money after the 70's, after the high tax.

My parent (singular) works in the public sector (which pays less than the private), as for life threatening situations you may still be admitted into any hospital but you still will have to pay a lot of money afterwards, that means for any average family to be in debt.

Other Companies have surged making and extraordinary amount of money in the last few years, like Mojang and Spotify.

I'm not saying no taxation, I'm saying that enormous taxation is unnecessary.

we have student loans in Norway! after 5 years at a university you have around 250 000 Norwegian krone ( 42 000 USD) in student loans.

each year you get around 90 000 kroner in loans with the goverment. after you pass your exams 40% of this will be changed to scholarship.

I'm Israeli and I share your pleasure in not understanding what a "student loan" is. Lets give a cheer for governments that care about your quality of life and education! Woo.

My family is rich, what is this debt your talking about?

I'll pay it off,but I'll need about $38,000 and 2 baked potatoes

Sigh HTX and the other gymasiums are the equivalent of High school...

DK University is the same as (You guessed it) US University/College.

Same here in Germany.

Hvor henne mester?

I, for better or worse, can relate to this

its not so bad,free healthcare,free room and board,free food,free workout sessions(lol),and a free education,plus cheap loans for housing.

same can be said for any country, really. the troops themselves are just regular joes who want to support their families and country. it's the guys in the government who use them to abuse their own power who fuck things up.

It's not the military that people talk shit on, it's the guys in charge who force them into doing shit that isn't necessary and forcing people to join to get into schools to support their frivolous wars rather than just using tht money to directly educate them.

Yeah, there's a guy I work with in a lab on my university's campus. He's working on his doctorate now, but he's been paying for grad school with his military benefits.