Moghrey Mie Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 Finland provides free universal daycare from eight months until the start of formal education at age seven. In Sweden, parents are entitled to 16 months parental leave, the first year paid at 80% of their salary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 8 minutes ago, Moghrey Mie said: Finland provides free universal daycare from eight months until the start of formal education at age seven. In Sweden, parents are entitled to 16 months parental leave, the first year paid at 80% of their salary. now tell us about their rates of taxation. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hissingsid Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 They clearly need to increase their population. I bet they do not get any help at all in China. You cannot compare countries. Any person in a good job would hardly jeopardize their career by taking 16 months off work, so much can happen in 16 months missed promotions , opportunities, training etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genericUserName Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 58 minutes ago, WTF said: now tell us about their rates of taxation. It must be nice to live in a society where properly funding services and infrastructure is seen as a positive. https://finland.fi/life-society/facts-and-feelings-do-taxes-make-finnish-people-happy/#:~:text=According to a survey commissioned,for maintaining Finland's welfare state. Quote As strange as it might sound, taxes may form part of the reason that Finland ranked number one in the World Happiness Report in 2018 and 2019. The index defines happiness in terms of general life satisfaction, which is affected by security and social cohesion. Frank Martela is an expert on wellbeing research at Aalto University. “I would say that Finns are actually quite happy taxpayers,” he tells me. According to a survey commissioned by the Tax Administration in 2019, fully 80 percent of Finns are happy to pay their taxes, 96 percent believe paying taxes is an important civic duty and 98 percent believe taxes are important for maintaining Finland’s welfare state. “Finns appreciate what they get from society and acknowledge that taxes are the way to fund that society,” says Martela. “Accordingly, most people are surprisingly happy to pay taxes.” He adds, “Taxes, instead of being a source of frustration, can be a source of pride for many.” Only 31 percent of survey respondents said they were frustrated with the amount of taxes they had to pay. In a similar survey of corporate taxpayers, 86 percent said their companies had a positive attitude towards taxation, and 95 percent believed that “doing the right thing is worth it.” 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0bserver Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 28 minutes ago, genericUserName said: It must be nice to live in a society where properly funding services and infrastructure is seen as a positive. https://finland.fi/life-society/facts-and-feelings-do-taxes-make-finnish-people-happy/#:~:text=According to a survey commissioned,for maintaining Finland's welfare state. But they get quality services for the money they pay in taxes. I'm sure if they had the DOI/DfE/various other departments pissing it away on poor quality/low value schemes then they would have the same outlook on tax as we do. Conversely if we had a health system where you saw a specialist within 7 days of diagnosis and treatment in a matter of days rather than multiple months/years, then we would have their positive outlook on it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Onchan Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 10 hours ago, 0bserver said: But they get quality services for the money they pay in taxes. I'm sure if they had the DOI/DfE/various other departments pissing it away on poor quality/low value schemes then they would have the same outlook on tax as we do. Conversely if we had a health system where you saw a specialist within 7 days of diagnosis and treatment in a matter of days rather than multiple months/years, then we would have their positive outlook on it. Low value schemes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0bserver Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 38 minutes ago, Andy Onchan said: Low value schemes? Low value as in we don't get value for money. Like £25m+ for a promenade and they basically shat on a plate and told us to be grateful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thommo2010 Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 13 hours ago, hissingsid said: They clearly need to increase their population. I bet they do not get any help at all in China. You cannot compare countries. Any person in a good job would hardly jeopardize their career by taking 16 months off work, so much can happen in 16 months missed promotions , opportunities, training etc. Can't comment for other people but when I had my kids my job took a back seat, it's a place to go to get paid. I got 1 week off after my first child was born, got longer with the second as he wasn't to well at birth but I would have loved more time off 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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