{"id":189316,"date":"2021-03-04T17:13:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=189316"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:14:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:14:40","slug":"no-aoc-mcdonalds-employees-in-denmark-arent-better-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-aoc-mcdonalds-employees-in-denmark-arent-better-off\/","title":{"rendered":"No, AOC, McDonald\u2019s Employees in Denmark Aren\u2019t Better Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-aoc-mcdonalds-employees-in-denmark-arent-better-off%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=189316&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a class=\"republishingLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/republishing-guidelines\/\">Please respect our republishing guidelines &#8211; Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feature-img test\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/McDonalds_Museum.jpg\" alt=\"No, AOC, McDonald's Employees in Denmark Aren't Better Off\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The thing about the favorite political talking points of leftists is that one never knows if they are repeated out of ignorance of the facts or if those facts are deliberately being withheld. Representative Alexandria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/?s=Ocasio-Cortez+\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-NY) recently tweeted how \u201cutterly embarrassing\u201d it is that the subject of raising the federal minimum wage is even being debated.\u00a0To make her point, the former bartender who now fancies herself the champion of socialism pointed to Danish employees of McDonald\u2019s, who earn the equivalent of about $22 an hour. The realities of life, economics, and taxes in Denmark are just not on the congresswoman\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-170460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/AOC.jpg\" alt width=\"450\" height=\"295\" \/>As several of Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s critics were quick to point out, there is no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/will-stimulus-checks-be-held-up-for-a-minimum-wage-hike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minimum wage<\/a> law in Denmark. As is the case in many Western and Northern European countries, unions wield far more power than they do in the United States. In Denmark, the fast-food chain\u2019s employees enjoy their apparently handsome hourly wage because of collective bargaining \u2013 not because the government imposes a minimum wage.<\/p>\n<h3>There\u2019s No Such Thing as \u201cFree\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>It is not clear whether the New York Democrat was unaware of this or whether she simply chose not to mention it. Still, the fact that the Danish government has not enacted a law setting a minimum hourly wage for private-sector employees is almost beside the point.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Ocasio-Cortez should ask McDonald\u2019s employees here in the United States how they would feel about being paid $22 an hour but then taking home less than half of that amount after taxes. Danes fork over more than 50% of their earnings. But it gets even worse for these Scandinavians, who are among the highest-taxed nations on earth. Denmark also has a value-added tax of 25% on most goods. As <em>The New York Times<\/em> points out: \u201c[A]\u00a0beer in Denmark will cost you 75 percent more\u00a0than in the U.S., a coffee a third more, a dozen eggs 40 percent more. Housing in Denmark is also more expensive than in the U.S.\u201d A gallon of gas costs almost six dollars in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Many Europeans are happy to be taxed up to the eyeballs in exchange for certain services being provided by the government, such as health care and education. Leftists here in the U.S. would say that these nations enjoy \u201cfree\u201d health care and \u201cfree\u201d education, but that is simply not true. What part of \u201ctaxed up to the eyeballs\u201d do they not understand?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/McDonalds_Museum.jpg\" alt width=\"450\" height=\"287\" \/>Would the majority of Americans really be happy with the same system? Would most Americans gladly pay income tax at the rate of 55% \u2013 and pay an additional 25% consumption tax on everything they buy \u2013 in exchange for education and health care?<\/p>\n<h3>Kicking Out Asylum Seekers<\/h3>\n<p>Another inconvenient fact about the Danes is their understanding that they cannot afford to provide services to an unlimited number of immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers, as Ocasio-Cortez and her leftist friends would like the U.S. to do. In fact, Denmark recently rescinded the residency permits of some Syrian refugees and will be sending them back to their home country. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says her government is working toward zero asylum applications, <em>RT<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the country, then, that America should aspire to emulate? Exorbitant taxes and a prohibitively high cost of living \u2013 but a strict immigration policy? That is not what Ocasio-Cortez wants, surely. But does she honestly believe that the U.S. government can afford to provide \u201cfree\u201d services to all Americans <em>and<\/em> to whoever else chooses to come here \u2013 and do so indefinitely? If that really is her vision of America\u2019s future, then there will come a time, before too long, when the people of this country look upon Danish taxpayers with envy.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more from<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/author\/graham-j-noble\/\"><em>Graham J. Noble<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please respect our republishing guidelines &#8211; Click Here The thing about the favorite political talking points of leftists is that one never knows if they are repeated out of ignorance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274730,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/McDonalds_Museum.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"No, AOC, McDonald\u2019s Employees in Denmark Aren\u2019t Better Off","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/McDonalds_Museum.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"No, AOC, McDonald\u2019s Employees in Denmark Aren\u2019t Better Off","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}