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by _delirium
5195 days ago
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Ah yes, "taxing their citizens into poverty". Have you looked up what a typical after-tax income is in Denmark? It is a very well-off kind of poverty, if it's poverty! More generally I'd suggest that 30 seconds of Googling and some quotes from a blog run by gold-bugs doesn't really constitute an educated opinion about Denmark... |
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Your higher income doesn't matter if everything else is many more times expensive to buy.
If the US raises the minimum wage, those people that got that minimum wage most likely will have the same buying power because the raise in costs will be pushed through by companies (rightfully so) to the consumer (their costs will have increased).
It also has to do with the perceived value of a dollar and it's less when everyone has more of them.
The other thing is that Danish citizens have no choice. You don't have a choice to opt-out of all of these government-run programs. When it's described above, it reminds me of organized crime tactics. They give you something for free, but everything comes at a price.
You can keep telling us that Denmark's situation is great, but one thing is obvious: Startups and business owners avoid it like the plague. Great government benefits don't really help you in the long-run when you end up giving 60%+ of your profits to the government. This doesn't even include the strict rules about hiring and firing people. The Danish government doesn't like businesses. It's because they would rather have all the control.
I remember there was an article about how great Sweden was for startups last year (a country very similar to Denmark). Almost everyone in the article mentioned how they wanted to get out of the country.
With rules like these, it really only gives you two choices: work for the government or a large corporation. I don't ever want to do either..no mater how much free sub-par education and medical care you throw at me.