{"id":1532,"date":"2007-07-19T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/dddblog\/2007\/07\/19\/high-taxes-in-norway.html"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T20:46:54","slug":"high-taxes-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/high-taxes-in-norway.html","title":{"rendered":"High taxes in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I  lived in Norway for two years. It is a beautiful country and the people  are wonderful but the taxes are nuts. The VAT tax causes everything but  the basics to be two to three time as high as in the United States. I  remember if you drove out of the country you were almost expected to  come back with a car trunk full of tax free liqueur. Some people in NATO  were paying their monthly rent with their monthly tax free allotment of  booze.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What I do not understand is  if 3\/4 of the people are against the taxes why do they still have them  and why do they continually find new things to tax? We are told that  Norway is a democracy but I see little evidence of that. In a democracy  you get rid of people who pass laws that you do not like. In my  experience Norway is a socialist nation run by an elite ruling class.  They control the media and all legislation in Norway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Irritation grows over taxes &#8211; <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Aftenposten<\/span>.no<br \/>\nNorwegians have long accepted high taxes to finance their social welfare state, but a new survey indicates rising dissatisfaction and, in some cases, outright hatred of some taxes that are viewed as way too high and unfair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lived in Norway for two years. It is a beautiful country and the people are wonderful but the taxes are nuts. The VAT tax causes everything but the basics to be two to three time as high as in the United States. I remember if you drove out of the country you were almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,335],"tags":[24,149,287,323],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-far-left-in-america","category-statism","tag-big-brother","tag-liberals","tag-media","tag-socialism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-oI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}