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Forbes - Best Countries for Business

ARealConservative said:
haha.

logic is not your strong point.

we were #2 with employment based healthcare. you came in guns blazing citing a lack of universal health care as a reason we are not in the top 10.

facts show you can be as high as #2 (using their grading system) without such a system. you have an obvious agenda, but this article isn't going to be helpful to you.
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70 Billion- In an economy the size of the US is pocket change.
 
Fenton said:
This is nonsense.

If Single payer was such a boon for Bussineses and investment why did Vermont scrap its plan's to be the first State in the Union to offer Single Payer ?

Because a 161% increase in taxes would have destroyed their local economy and forced their tax base to move away.

NOT good for bussines.

Is worth mentioning that Denmark is a tiny Nation with ALLOT of Oil revenues and it STILL has the Highest taxes in Western Europe.

Highest taxes among Socialist European Nations and people want to bring that here ???
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How is it that the nations referred to as "socialist" are the most business friendly,then? Doesn't that seem like a contradiction?
 
Dittohead not! said:
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Denmark is #1, while the US is #22. Why? Take a look at the list and see what you think the first ten have in common. Then, let's discuss how the US might join that top ten.
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how can you have that discussion when the metrics used to determine those rankings is absent?
 
Lafayette said:
And the same ranking (from the World Bank) for the EU alone, here. Scroll down to Page 6.

If Singapore is at the top-spot, then:
Denmark is 5th
UK 7th
Ireland 10th
Finland 11th
Sweden 14th, and
Germany 19th.
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And yet, Singapore could - literally - fit inside of New York City.
 
Thrilla said:
how can you have that discussion when the metrics used to determine those rankings is absent?
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Good question. Here is a link to the metrics used:

Forbes has gauged the business friendliness of the world’s biggest economies annually the past 10 years. Denmark ranks on top for a second straight year and sixth time overall. We determined the Best Countries for Business by grading 144 nations on 11 different factors: property rights, innovation, taxes, technology, corruption, freedom (personal, trade and monetary), red tape, investor protection and stock market performance. Each category was equally weighted. We only included countries with data across at least eight categories. Denmark ranked among the top 20 countries in 10 of the 11 categories we measured.
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