Denmark is expensive no doubt, but you need to know that for a Dane like me, with a part-time job as a night watch with no degree required (though I do have one), my wages are $245 to $360 a day, depending on the hours and day of the week (with the income taxes being around 25% when you consider all the deductibles and that the first around $7,000 you earn a year is being tax free)
Perhaps I should add, that my wages include 6 weeks fully paid vacation a year + around 10 holydays, fully paid sick leave, 52 weeks of fully paid maternity leave and a pension scheme. Income taxes include free healthcare and free higher education, including university college for everyone: In fact, you even get paid $885 a month to study, to free your mind of other worries.
@@chloe143kern Tax doesn't matter if you get something from your tax money. Our health care is 100% tax funded, we have no health insurance. When sick or injured, we call an ambulance and you pay nothing. Don't have to sign one single document, not before nor after. A US research (from San Diego) project compared US healthcare towards the Danish. They found that US health care costs over twice as much as the Danish. IE. A broken leg costs twice the price to repair. The two biggest factors were lawyers and admin. Lawyers are rarely used here and admin much lower, because hospitals don't have to deal with insurance companies. You pay expensive insurance, that basically feed a lot of parasites. The free education and free higher education. You even get money from the state when studying, up to 952 USD per month (2023). So yes, the Danes feel they get something for their money.
Denmark is expensive no doubt, but you need to know that for a Dane like me, with a part-time job as a night watch with no degree required (though I do have one), my wages are $245 to $360 a day, depending on the hours and day of the week (with the income taxes being around 25% when you consider all the deductibles and that the first around $7,000 you earn a year is being tax free)
Perhaps I should add, that my wages include 6 weeks fully paid vacation a year + around 10 holydays, fully paid sick leave, 52 weeks of fully paid maternity leave and a pension scheme. Income taxes include free healthcare and free higher education, including university college for everyone: In fact, you even get paid $885 a month to study, to free your mind of other worries.
aside for the taxis, everything was very reasonable for me coming from an expensive area in california so i totally understand!
@@chloe143kern Tax doesn't matter if you get something from your tax money. Our health care is 100% tax funded, we have no health insurance. When sick or injured, we call an ambulance and you pay nothing. Don't have to sign one single document, not before nor after.
A US research (from San Diego) project compared US healthcare towards the Danish. They found that US health care costs over twice as much as the Danish. IE. A broken leg costs twice the price to repair. The two biggest factors were lawyers and admin. Lawyers are rarely used here and admin much lower, because hospitals don't have to deal with insurance companies. You pay expensive insurance, that basically feed a lot of parasites.
The free education and free higher education. You even get money from the state when studying, up to 952 USD per month (2023).
So yes, the Danes feel they get something for their money.