Its world wide just not canada

[Hamloc]

Tax as a percentage of GDP in 2013, Norway 40.5%, Canada 30.5%, Austrailia 27.5% and USA 25.2%, where would you chose to live?

[fjlip]

Certainly the USA is in huge debt, raising their ceiling regularly to borrow more. Canada is in deficit spending, so all those taxes are still not enough to pay for the costs of living here. How about Norway?

[sawfly]

health care , there should be virtually no waiting lists.
you have a 40 % cushion spend it .
and fix it.
there are a million ways to cut costs as well.
take pharmacists for example.
there might be 600-1000 qualified students wanting in each year . only 200 are taken. if that
the collage restricts the supply to drive up their value. (a union )

prescriptions for eg.
having to go back to the doctor more than once a year for something like a gout or cloistral pill is ridicules .
they only test once a year.
and you should be able to get a years worth on one prescription.
waste of time and money.

i still think that there has to be
some way to discourage the abusers of the system, we all know someone like that. going in for nothing.
they plug up the system , and cause delays for those that really need assistance.
my little rant.

[malleefarmer]

may have changed since I was in Sweden but bottle shop were govt owned and controlled and even boutique brewerys etc with special local brews etc still couldn't sell direct to customers.

The swedes I stayed with travelled to Denmark to get all there booze and sometimes Germany free trade agreement of booze agreement