Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has an explanation for why Trump’s request that we stop allowing people to immigrate from “shithole” countries and bring in more people from Normay Norway isn’t racist. Trump wasn’t thinking about the color of the people he was willing to import. He was looking at their work ethic ...
"The people of Norway work very hard. What he was referencing is, from a merit-based perspective, we'd like to have those with skills" who can contribute to U.S.
Yeah. About that. Norway actually has the world’s shortest work week.
Norway's labor laws are among the most generous in the world, granting workers a minimum of 21 paid vacation days a year and often allowing parents with young children the right to reduce their hours.
In addition, maternity leave can extend to 43 weeks at full pay, or 53 weeks at reduced pay.
Republicans might also want to talk about how Norway has only three tax brackets. Except those brackets include 50 percent on all income over $124,000. People in the top 1 percent pay millions more in Norway than in the U.S., which helps explain why income inequality in the United States is three times worse than in Norway. Corporate taxes in Norway run up to 54 percent, with extra high taxes for fossil fuel companies.
Despite those supposedly economy-crushing taxes, Norway has the highest average household income in the world—almost 20 percent higher than the United States. And since everyone pays 8 percent into a very good healthcare system, the average life expectancy is more than two years longer than in the United States, while women are three times less likely to die from complications related to pregnancy.
All of this contributes to Norway being the happiest country on the planet. It also explains why more Americans migrate to Norway than the other way around, and why they’re all too busy being happy to point out that Donald Trump lives in a shithole.