How much of your salary you take home isn't the only determining factor for quality of life. And a lot of the taxes presumably go back into the function and well-being of the country. Not saying Denmark has it better or not, just that this knee-jerk argument that pops up literally anytime anyone implies they might be doing well seems a bit overdone and underthought.
Both countries have pros and cons to how they manage themselves
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It don't rly makes sense to compare two different companys in 2 different countrys / places..
No it doesnt. Different countrys have different values of money, other culture etc. There are a lot of differences between countrys. From 80€ i have in germany you could live a whole week or even a month in some countrys as an example. If you now have 2 different countrys there are already a lot of differences.. But if you then even take 2 different companys in different countrys it makes no sense to compare them. If you would compare the same company on different countrys.. Okay. If you would compare two companys in the same country.. Okay. But compare both at the same time is just stupid. Not to forget that every country have different rules. In germany workers have a minimum of cash they need to earn.. They can't (well, shouldnt) earn less. But in other countrys such rules maybe don't exist. Etc etc etc..
Okay, but they are comparing a first world country and a third world country here, they are comparing two first world countries, the same company, and adjusting the currency to the dollar as the standard. So the comparison was valid. The idiot bringing taxes into one but not the other is the one who doesn't know how to do a proper comparison.
You guys are forgetting how the American worker is flipping burgers because he couldn't afford university and if he gets sick he's fired. She doesn't have those problems either.
Okay, the $9 is still before the approximate 12% tax (not including insurance and any other benefits you may have coming out of your check. That comes out to...guess what, $7.92. STILL less than the $8, and they still do not have paid leave, so if they get sick and have to miss a day, their carefully laid out financial house of cards can oh so easily come crashing down .
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63% is the HIGHEST tax rate in denmark, as you pay a higher percentage for higher incomes. The 20 EUR/hour wage will result in around 45% total taxes and deductions. And none of you guys mentioned the health insurance yet. Staying in a hospital costs less than in a youth hostel.
I mentioned the cost of health insurance, which I find asinine considering what the cost of actual health care is as well. If one costs a fortune the other shouldn't. But, you know CAPITALISM.
When I lived there, most people couldn't go out to eat nearly as often as the people in the US who are always complaining that they don't earn enough. So, the few BK workers there are may make $20/hour, but there aren't many of them. Also, all the fast food workers, like most high school educated people in Europe, speak at least three languages. I once had to get directions from a service station attendant, and he apologized for his poor English but gave me directions in better English than most mumbly US teens who can't avoid saying "like" twice in every sentence.
Average income tax in Denmark in this pay range: about 45%.
Average income tax in the US of A in this pay range: around 12%.
So, the Dane earns about $11 per hour, gets free education and a $900 monthly salary while studying, 32 paid weeks of parental leave, free health care, and so on. Meanwhile, the American earns around $8 per hour, and that's about it.
This comment is full of shit.
LMAO LMAO LMAO. The Denmark Burger King worker STILL has a higher standard of living than the Burger King worker in the USA. FOH with that fedora economics.
9 dollars an hour is about 10% of income in taxes in the US. So they keep $8.10. The biggest discrepancy comes from the actually quality of a burger king outside the US. Anyone that's eaten at an American fast food establishment outside the US knows the quality of work and food is alot higher. In the US, you can pretty easily make 12/13 dollars an hour at a good chick fil a.
Iv'e worked at m uncles restaurant before, cooking meat, washing dishes, cleaning, etc, some restaurant might be stricter on their policies, but working at a fast food place is a joke, super easy.
You can't compare a country with a homogeneous population of 5.7M people to a country with a diverse population of 300M people and expect to get any worthwhile data.
Sure, Denmark may have socialized medicine, but how big is the bureaucracy that is used to manage it? Now extrapolate that to accomodate a country of 300M. It would be so large that it would be unmanageable. Also add in that the bottom 48% of earners in the US don't actually pay any taxes, and the costs for this program would bankrupt everyone.
A single point of comparison (a fast food worker) doesn't make a very good comparison unless you just want to make a meme to try and bash the US.
This kind of biased comparison makes me sick.
No, base wage workers in Denmark are ot taxed 60%. Thry have higher taxes, yes, but as any sensible country does, lower tier incomes get taxed less.
Also, minimum wage workers in the US pay taxes too, and get almost nothing in return.
In the end, check the overall conditions of a big city in Denmark and a big city in the US. Tell me which has more beggars, theft, vandalism and poverty.
Both countries have pros and cons to how they manage themselves
Average income tax in the US of A in this pay range: around 12%.
So, the Dane earns about $11 per hour, gets free education and a $900 monthly salary while studying, 32 paid weeks of parental leave, free health care, and so on. Meanwhile, the American earns around $8 per hour, and that's about it.
This comment is full of shit.
Sure, Denmark may have socialized medicine, but how big is the bureaucracy that is used to manage it? Now extrapolate that to accomodate a country of 300M. It would be so large that it would be unmanageable. Also add in that the bottom 48% of earners in the US don't actually pay any taxes, and the costs for this program would bankrupt everyone.
A single point of comparison (a fast food worker) doesn't make a very good comparison unless you just want to make a meme to try and bash the US.
No, base wage workers in Denmark are ot taxed 60%. Thry have higher taxes, yes, but as any sensible country does, lower tier incomes get taxed less.
Also, minimum wage workers in the US pay taxes too, and get almost nothing in return.
In the end, check the overall conditions of a big city in Denmark and a big city in the US. Tell me which has more beggars, theft, vandalism and poverty.