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		<title>By: Baluba</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Baluba]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#039;s still a tax on personal salary as is what I for simplicity state in my previous comment. Also adjusted for deductible.

When it comes to how much health you get for these 8% of your overall salary, about $8000 a year on average (whether you use it or not). We one of the the most bureaucratic health care systems in the world.
 Compared to ie. Finland we have 50% more doctors and 100% more nurses pr. capita. and still they score better than us in overall health care within OECD.

Personally I had to wait over a year in line just to get to a freakkin orthopedic for a 5 min consultation.

The only reason we can maintain this ridiculously inefficient socialist idiocracy is due to our vast oil resources. The production has however fallen by 5-10% a year since 2002, so this train is about to crash within the next 15-20 years...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, it&#8217;s still a tax on personal salary as is what I for simplicity state in my previous comment. Also adjusted for deductible.</p>
<p>When it comes to how much health you get for these 8% of your overall salary, about $8000 a year on average (whether you use it or not). We one of the the most bureaucratic health care systems in the world.<br />
 Compared to ie. Finland we have 50% more doctors and 100% more nurses pr. capita. and still they score better than us in overall health care within OECD.</p>
<p>Personally I had to wait over a year in line just to get to a freakkin orthopedic for a 5 min consultation.</p>
<p>The only reason we can maintain this ridiculously inefficient socialist idiocracy is due to our vast oil resources. The production has however fallen by 5-10% a year since 2002, so this train is about to crash within the next 15-20 years&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Nils</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nils]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idle rich can pay people, the idle poor cannot. But the main problem is, we don&#039;t have any idle rich ones in Norway.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The idle rich can pay people, the idle poor cannot. But the main problem is, we don&#8217;t have any idle rich ones in Norway.</p>
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		<title>By: Nils</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nils]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Company tax is 27% now. That is why they are considering lowering the income tax to 27% as well. You are doing the mistake of including national health tax, which is 7.8%. Together with 28%, that makes up the 36% number you find as &quot;general tax rate&quot;.  When comparing to countries like the US, the National health tax cannot be included in the total tax comparison, as they do things differently. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Company tax is 27% now. That is why they are considering lowering the income tax to 27% as well. You are doing the mistake of including national health tax, which is 7.8%. Together with 28%, that makes up the 36% number you find as &#8220;general tax rate&#8221;.  When comparing to countries like the US, the National health tax cannot be included in the total tax comparison, as they do things differently. </p>
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		<title>By: Baluba</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Baluba]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[28% is Company tax. Personal salaries get taxed between 33-50%. VAT on goods is 25%. We also have tax on dividend, 28%, and tax on wealth in general, 1,1% pa. of everything you own. hereditary tax (deathtax) 10%, + special taxes on ie. tobacco, liquor and gas making a litre of vodka in Norway costing $60 and a litre of gas $3 ($12 a gallon). To mention some...

All in all, effective tax in Norway for an average consumer is about 70%.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>28% is Company tax. Personal salaries get taxed between 33-50%. VAT on goods is 25%. We also have tax on dividend, 28%, and tax on wealth in general, 1,1% pa. of everything you own. hereditary tax (deathtax) 10%, + special taxes on ie. tobacco, liquor and gas making a litre of vodka in Norway costing $60 and a litre of gas $3 ($12 a gallon). To mention some&#8230;</p>
<p>All in all, effective tax in Norway for an average consumer is about 70%.</p>
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		<title>By: Philo Vaihinger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Philo Vaihinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still, I must voice my concern for the terrible impact of inherited wealth who will &quot;never know what it feels like to see a dream fulfilled.&quot;


Why does no one ever worry about the awful psychological and social effects of idleness on the idle rich, but only on the idle poor?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Still, I must voice my concern for the terrible impact of inherited wealth who will &#8220;never know what it feels like to see a dream fulfilled.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why does no one ever worry about the awful psychological and social effects of idleness on the idle rich, but only on the idle poor?</p>
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		<title>By: hurrdurr</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[hurrdurr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah he got fired for calling pm Jens a creep not for ranting racist slurs on facebook...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah he got fired for calling pm Jens a creep not for ranting racist slurs on facebook&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Nils</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nils]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thon wasn&#039;t born rich. He was born a poor farmers son - he know&#039;s what he&#039;s talking about.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thon wasn&#8217;t born rich. He was born a poor farmers son &#8211; he know&#8217;s what he&#8217;s talking about.</p>
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		<title>By: Nils</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nils]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incometax of 28% is not high]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Incometax of 28% is not high</p>
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		<title>By: Bruce Bawer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 19:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norway not only has high income-tax rates but also taxes bank accounts. And it has very high inheritance taxes, which are an issue in the current campaign. 

Low taxes are not Norway&#039;s problem.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Norway not only has high income-tax rates but also taxes bank accounts. And it has very high inheritance taxes, which are an issue in the current campaign. </p>
<p>Low taxes are not Norway&#8217;s problem.</p>
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		<title>By: Ei Saa Peitaa</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ei Saa Peitaa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 19:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a fellow Norwegian I second that!
A policeman the best we have, who also are a member of the conservative progress party in Norway just got FIRED for criticizing the prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, there is no freedom of speech if you don&#039;t agree with the socialist rulers in Norway!


NORWEGIAN TOP COP DISMISSED FOR CALLING PM JENS STOLTENBERG AS CREEP ON FACEBOOK  http://tundratabloids.com/2013/09/norwegian-top-cop-dismissed-for-calling-pm-jens-stoltenberg-as-creep-on-facebook.html]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a fellow Norwegian I second that!<br />
A policeman the best we have, who also are a member of the conservative progress party in Norway just got FIRED for criticizing the prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, there is no freedom of speech if you don&#8217;t agree with the socialist rulers in Norway!</p>
<p>NORWEGIAN TOP COP DISMISSED FOR CALLING PM JENS STOLTENBERG AS CREEP ON FACEBOOK  <a href="http://tundratabloids.com/2013/09/norwegian-top-cop-dismissed-for-calling-pm-jens-stoltenberg-as-creep-on-facebook.html" rel="nofollow">http://tundratabloids.com/2013/09/norwegian-top-cop-dismissed-for-calling-pm-jens-stoltenberg-as-creep-on-facebook.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Philo Vaihinger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Philo Vaihinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 17:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I, too, have the impression violence comes late to them and really is, just as they say, essentially self-defensive. Much like the Hindus in India.


The case would be easier to make if we knew Burma allows, as India generally has allowed, and they support, religious pluralism. If not, well, that damages the argument.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I, too, have the impression violence comes late to them and really is, just as they say, essentially self-defensive. Much like the Hindus in India.</p>
<p>The case would be easier to make if we knew Burma allows, as India generally has allowed, and they support, religious pluralism. If not, well, that damages the argument.</p>
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		<title>By: Philo Vaihinger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Philo Vaihinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 17:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;[H]e felt sorry for all the young people in Norway who – taking advantage of the Labor Party’s generous welfare entitlements – spend their lives on the dole instead of working, because, he said, they’ll never know what it feels like to see a dream fulfilled.&quot;


And the people born rich who never work a day in their lives?


Maybe they, too, ought to be pushed into work by having that crutch kicked away?


A suitably conficatory wealth tax, perhaps.


Or a much, much bigger inheritance tax.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;[H]e felt sorry for all the young people in Norway who – taking advantage of the Labor Party’s generous welfare entitlements – spend their lives on the dole instead of working, because, he said, they’ll never know what it feels like to see a dream fulfilled.&#8221;</p>
<p>And the people born rich who never work a day in their lives?</p>
<p>Maybe they, too, ought to be pushed into work by having that crutch kicked away?</p>
<p>A suitably conficatory wealth tax, perhaps.</p>
<p>Or a much, much bigger inheritance tax.</p>
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		<title>By: oldschooltwentysix</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[oldschooltwentysix]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good article. It&#039;s sad that elite Norwegians are so blinded to the reality. Or are they just hungry for power? They are out of touch with many plain thinking people who understand that theories of social science can play out in negative ways.


I imagine the situation at the river in Oslo is even more pronounced since my time there, as is the blindness of those who actually believe they are promoting humanism, and live in an environment where to be an individual is heresy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good article. It&#8217;s sad that elite Norwegians are so blinded to the reality. Or are they just hungry for power? They are out of touch with many plain thinking people who understand that theories of social science can play out in negative ways.</p>
<p>I imagine the situation at the river in Oslo is even more pronounced since my time there, as is the blindness of those who actually believe they are promoting humanism, and live in an environment where to be an individual is heresy.</p>
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		<title>By: Jakareh</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jakareh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, the Burmese Buddhists were quite slow to anger. It took many outrages perpetrated by the invading Bangladeshi Muslims, the so-called Rohingya, for them to react.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, the Burmese Buddhists were quite slow to anger. It took many outrages perpetrated by the invading Bangladeshi Muslims, the so-called Rohingya, for them to react.</p>
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		<title>By: Chezwick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chezwick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Olav Thon comes across as a helluva guy. May he live to see a conservative party governing his beloved homeland.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Olav Thon comes across as a helluva guy. May he live to see a conservative party governing his beloved homeland.</p>
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		<title>By: jewdog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jewdog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norway is a small country that could easily be transformed by a determined immigration policy on behalf of Islamization. What I don&#039;t understand is why any sane native of that country would permit that. I know that there have been many rapes in Oslo, and other ominous goings on. Norwegians are the opposite of the Burmese Buddhists, who don&#039;t take any crap from Muslims. It&#039;s hard to believe that those pathetic wimps are actually descended from the Vikings.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Norway is a small country that could easily be transformed by a determined immigration policy on behalf of Islamization. What I don&#8217;t understand is why any sane native of that country would permit that. I know that there have been many rapes in Oslo, and other ominous goings on. Norwegians are the opposite of the Burmese Buddhists, who don&#8217;t take any crap from Muslims. It&#8217;s hard to believe that those pathetic wimps are actually descended from the Vikings.</p>
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		<title>By: Baluba</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Baluba]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Norwegian I can only say that this is a spot on analysis. It seems funny, but is really very sad :p The iron fist of the socialist/globalist regime is a hard one indeed and their control over the school and media reigns supreme. You need to be brave to speak up against it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a Norwegian I can only say that this is a spot on analysis. It seems funny, but is really very sad :p The iron fist of the socialist/globalist regime is a hard one indeed and their control over the school and media reigns supreme. You need to be brave to speak up against it.</p>
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