Johan
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A few days ago, Fox Business host Trish Regan compared Denmark to Venezuela
Denmark's social-democrat former Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries took the time to debunk most of what she said
Given the fact that Danes live in a welfare state that's been implemented in the country for decades, I guess danes are horribly miserable, just like Venezulians. Guess what Denmark was rank 3rd on the UN's World Happiness Report. And among the 6 countries that are often used as examples by social-democrat, 5 of them are in the Top 6 (Finland, Norway, Demark, Iceland and Netherlands. The last one, Sweden, is ranked 10th, which is still much higher than the US (18th).
It is true, they pay about 55% federal tax but because of that, they don't have to sênd huge money on private healthcare (or hospital bills), education is free, publc transportation are cheap and efficient, etc.
Denmark spends nearly 9% of its GDP on education, much more than the US (5%), which result on Denmark being ranked much higher than the US on PISA rankings (Programme for International Student Assessment) : in 2015 Denmark was ranked 11th, the US were ranked 39th.
All that (among other things) results in Danes being globally quite more happy in their lives than Americans, even thought danes live in a socialist country. Or is it because they live in a society shaped by social-democracts policies that they end up beinghappier than Americans ?
Denmark's social-democrat former Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries took the time to debunk most of what she said
Given the fact that Danes live in a welfare state that's been implemented in the country for decades, I guess danes are horribly miserable, just like Venezulians. Guess what Denmark was rank 3rd on the UN's World Happiness Report. And among the 6 countries that are often used as examples by social-democrat, 5 of them are in the Top 6 (Finland, Norway, Demark, Iceland and Netherlands. The last one, Sweden, is ranked 10th, which is still much higher than the US (18th).
It is true, they pay about 55% federal tax but because of that, they don't have to sênd huge money on private healthcare (or hospital bills), education is free, publc transportation are cheap and efficient, etc.
Denmark spends nearly 9% of its GDP on education, much more than the US (5%), which result on Denmark being ranked much higher than the US on PISA rankings (Programme for International Student Assessment) : in 2015 Denmark was ranked 11th, the US were ranked 39th.
All that (among other things) results in Danes being globally quite more happy in their lives than Americans, even thought danes live in a socialist country. Or is it because they live in a society shaped by social-democracts policies that they end up beinghappier than Americans ?
