Denmark Socialism

FORMER DANISH TAX OFFICE EXECUTIVE WARNS U.S. DEMOCRATS NOT TO EMULATE DENMARK…….

But these are not rational people.

These are very hard core socialists trying to implement basic socialist principles that many socialist states are little by little rejecting/moving away from.

At the time Denmark became rich relative to the rest of the world, it was not a welfare state. In fact, Denmark has historically been a low tax country by international standards. Until the 1960s, the Danish tax revenue to GDP ratio was at the same level as the US, and lower than the British. The sharp divergence in the Danish tax level really occurred in the second half of the 1960s, when first a left-wing coalition government and then a right-wing one increased the tax-to-GDP ratio by some ten percentage points.

The Danish Model: Don’t try this at home

The Danish Model: Don't try this at home

“It can hardly be claimed that introducing the welfare state made Denmark rich; it was rather the other way around.” Photo:Javier Lastras/Flickr

Published: 05 Nov 2015 08:34 GMT+01:00

I am increasingly, both in Denmark and abroad, being met by the claim that Denmark somehow is proof that a gentler socialism is preferable to free market capitalism, promising more happiness, greater wealth or both. Recently, the Democratic contenders to become the presidential candidate of their party, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, were declaring their love for Denmark.

I came across the rising attraction of the model myself at the Greek Emergency Summit in Athens, earlier this year, and I gave a talk about it at the Students for Liberty conference in Sofia last month. My advice was: Don’t try this at home; at least not until you understand what the Danish Model is about.

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