The Danish Visit

The U.S. Welfare System

I feel that the U.S welfare system is screwed up in some ways. I don't like how our government system is run by rich people to benefit rich people. Through all the different kinds of taxing systems, flat tax, regressive, progressive, in the end rich people benefit. It all may seem that it is geared towards making things fair but I don't feel so. It is made to seem as though everyone is paying the same amount of taxes for certain things. This may be true but while $5000 worth of taxes may be cheap for the upper class, it may take a large toll on the lower and working class.
When we called the agency that aided people in need, I was surprised that Andy was right about how if people were nice, we'd like them but they weren't necessarily the most informative. The two people we called were nice people but they didn't really provide us with as much information that we could have possibly gotten. From the information that we did find out, as Yazmin mentioned, it was strange that section 8 housing was not one of the first things offered. Jill has a 3 year old kid and shes pregnant and just got kicked out of her parents house, section 8 housing should have been the very first thing mentioned.

The Government System of Denmark

When we were taught about the Danish system, though I'm not sure how many people were actually listening to them talk instead of staring spacily into the Danish people's eyes, I was surprised at how their government system worked. I like it a lot. I liked how everything was pretty much free there. Free school (except private of course, I meant like "colleges" which were called universities when they moved into 10th grade and up), free health care, free hospital visits and all that good stuff. One of them, I think his name was Nick, said that it was hard to be poor in Denmark. That people would have to try hard to be poor since there was so much given stuff. Even if the highest bracket of taxes is 63%, it doesn't mean that everyone pays 63% of their income to taxes. That's the nominal tax. Their effective tax is closer to what our high brackets are. Since they are paying pretty much the same amount of taxes we are and they're getting free stuff while we have to pay for everything I cant see how some could possibly be poor in Denmark.

What Should We Do?

I think that we should adapt to the social government that Denmark has. I sounds pretty sweet. Think about it, people of the U.S would be paying the same taxes but we'd get free health care. Health care gets expensive. But of course that is just an opinion that will not be carried out because in the end, our government system is run by rich people to benefit rich people so they can get even richer.