This is always the Canadian cope every single time an American points out that the US is a wealthier society than Canada.
The US is not "the most unequal society in the developed world". It's income distribution looks as follows:
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Americans have a higher median disposable income than Canadians after taxes and transfers.
Just to note, the median is not shown above (but I address that below); inequality is the size of the gap between the bottom 10% and the top 10% and on the chart above, the U.S. does show a very large gap, its difficult to discern if its the largest.
However, there is an easy way to check, lets go over to this page that shows the Gini Coefficient (the most accepted measure of inequality) of each country:
en.wikipedia.org
When you rank by Gini, the lower the number, the higher the level of equality........
The U.S. ranks 121st in the world. Canada is 54th.
Of course, some poor places have high levels of equality, so you want to look for developed countries, in which case Slovakia would be best (shows as number 2, but that's deceptive as Afghanistan shows as number 1 with no data)
Every state provides paid vacation.
Absolutely untrue. Not a single U.S. State has a mandatory level of paid vacation
This is an image of minimum paid leave by country from Wikipedia:
Note that the grey colour means no requirement in place.
Associated Text:
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ile:Map_of_Vacation_Days_Around_the_World.png
Your healthcare system results in higher taxes and an absurd COL that is not worth what Canada offers.
You came to UT just to insult the entire Country of Canada?
I'm unsure as to why you'd spout off anti-American propaganda.
I'm not anti-American in the least, nor particularly pro-Canadian; I'm a post-nationalist who believes in evaluating facts not pandering to flags, symbols and ethnocentrism.
I know it's crucial to preserving the Canadian identity, but come on. America has higher average wages than Canada,
The correct comparitor would be median wages; that said, I concur, the U.S. does have a mariginally higher pre-tax, Purchasing-Power-Parity adjusted International Dollar factored median wage vs Canada:
Source:
However, when factoring in the cost of of out-of-pocket healthcare costs for the typical American (deductibles, co-pays etc.)
(source embedded above)
It turns out that number is far larger than the difference in median income.
(in fairness, Canadians also pay out-of-pocket healthcare costs, but the number is about 1/3 of the above, on average)
To compare cost-related non-adherence (CRNA), serious problems paying medical bills and average annual out-of-pocket cost over time in five countries.Repeated cross-sectional analysis of the Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy survey from 2004 ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
there's a reason the US has always received more immigrants, and received a lopsided share of Canadians (compared to the number of Americans moving to Canada).
Uh, Canada has a much higher proportion of immigrants moving to it than does the United States, and this has been the case for the longest time. If you mean to compare the absolute numbers, that would be rather silly given the United States has 9x the population to begin with......
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