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I guess you think a 700% increase in crime is just fine.
It is rather hillarious you would think Denmark socialist. You don't really lnow what that word means, do you?
Anyway, how do you think violent crime in the USA developed from 1960 onwards? How do you think other countries violent crime rates developed in other countries?
Do you think the fact that the USA has 500 % the violent crime rate of Denmark is just fine?
I know this is a little dated, but it's a quite interesting perspective;
In a previous article—"Denmark: Potemkin Village"—I documented the downside to Denmark. Despite its reputation as a showcase of political utopia, 40 percent of its adult population live on government transfer income, full-time, all-year. A little more than a third of these people are pensioners and the rest are working age. About one third of the people who actually hold a job work for the government or government-owned companies. The effective tax level is around 70 percent, not the 50 percent that is usually reported (the lower figure comes about by disregarding the effects of the sales tax and excise taxes).
Of the people who do get married, more people get a divorce today. In 1975, 18 per cent of all the marriages from 1950 had ended in a divorce during the preceding 25 years. In 1995, 36 per cent of the marriages from 1970 had ended in a divorce. Of marriages in 1985, 20 per cent ended in a divorce after only 7 years. As a result of the above, many more people live in single households today than did in 1960. In 2000, one third of all adults in Denmark were living alone.
I thought Denmark was the Happiest Country on Earth. Perhaps someplace with a Free Market Economy like Zimbabwe
denmark always ranks first on surveys of happiness. By any measure it is the happiest country on earth. God knows why. Maybe because it has more economic freedom than America?
denmark always ranks first on surveys of happiness. By any measure it is the happiest country on earth. God knows why. Maybe because it has more economic freedom than America?
See now this is the kind of thing that cracks me up. OP says Denmark is horrible because it's socialist, and then you say Denmark is awesome because it's capitalist.
I know this is a little dated, but it's a quite interesting perspective;
In a previous article—"Denmark: Potemkin Village"—I documented the downside to Denmark. Despite its reputation as a showcase of political utopia, 40 percent of its adult population live on government transfer income, full-time, all-year. A little more than a third of these people are pensioners and the rest are working age. About one third of the people who actually hold a job work for the government or government-owned companies. The effective tax level is around 70 percent, not the 50 percent that is usually reported (the lower figure comes about by disregarding the effects of the sales tax and excise taxes).
Of the people who do get married, more people get a divorce today. In 1975, 18 per cent of all the marriages from 1950 had ended in a divorce during the preceding 25 years. In 1995, 36 per cent of the marriages from 1970 had ended in a divorce. Of marriages in 1985, 20 per cent ended in a divorce after only 7 years. As a result of the above, many more people live in single households today than did in 1960. In 2000, one third of all adults in Denmark were living alone.
Is the cookie of capitalism cracking? If someone writes an essay about the history of US since 1960, and later describes in detail our current situation, what would the reader conclude? This forum is inundated with doomsday scenarios about the future of US. Should we conclude capitalism is finished?
2) Of the people who do get married, more people get a divorce today. In 1975, 18 per cent of all the marriages from 1950 had ended in a divorce during the preceding 25 years. In 1995, 36 per cent of the marriages from 1970 had ended in a divorce. Of marriages in 1985, 20 per cent ended in a divorce after only 7 years. As a result of the above, many more people live in single households today than did in 1960. In 2000, one third of all adults in Denmark were living alone.
What do you think happened in the US in last 50 years?
Someone who lives elsewhere will immediately conclude America's cookie is cracked...
The truth is that the same happens all over the western world
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