[ersii]

All three of the mention countries have pretty much free, capitalistic enterprise - which is the total opposite to what mjevans suggested.

That said, there is a huge government ("public") sector and the taxation is high on most things. Especially income and consumption.

Basically, all of the socialist programs that's currently going on in the Nordic countries rely heavily on taxing free enterprises (private sector) and would work a lot less without them.

[sebcat]

> Basically, all of the socialist programs

social, not socialist.

[oblio]

Even better, the actual platform is called "social democracy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

Quite a different beast.