9 reasons Denmark's government/economy is better than the US's

[Markle]

"The World Happiness Report, which determines which nation’s population is the “happiest” using criteria like life expectancy, GDP, social safety nets, as well as factors like “perception of corruption” and “freedom to make life choices,” found that Denmark was the happiest country. The US, in the meantime, ranked #17 on the same list."[/QUOTE]

THANK YOU! You are an outstanding FOIL, keep up the good work!

All these are typical bogus comparisons having no realism. They are frequently misused by the United Nations, run by hundreds of tin pot dictators who envy our money. Also, the information is provided by the country themselves.

Life Expectancy at birth.
This is based on heredity. Life expectancy in Denmark is nearly identical to that of Minnesota, both higher than the US average. The life expectancy of Japanese is nearly identical to that of people in Hawaii. Why do you suppose that happens?
Both Japan, Denmark, Norway and dozens of other countries are homogeneous. That means their population is made up of one race. The United State is a Multiracial country. We have millions of people of different races many of whom have shorter life expectancies than homogeneous nations.

GDP
GDP...well, look at the massive failure of Lame Duck President Barack Hussein Obama's economic policies. However, in 2015, the GDP per capita for Denmark is $51,424. For the United State: $56,421. You're wrong again.

Social Safety Nets
Easy, again the United Nations LOVES Socialist Nations, where they could get their hands on America's wealth. In the eyes of the UN, the more Socialist is a nation, they more the UN loves them.

PERCEPTION of Corruption
Well, that's easy. This is totally, 100% subjective. Much easier to keep a population of about half of New York City convinced of something than 330 MILLION. You are oh so EASY!

Freedom to make Life Choices.
Again, subjective.

Nice try.

 

[healthmyths]

Denmark doesn't permit medical malpractice claims so doctors don't need outrageous insurance.

Very good point!
READ THIS STUDY!! http://www.jacksonhealthcare.com/media/8968/defensivemedicine_ebook_final.pdf

90% of physicians surveyed say they order $850 billion a year in wasted duplicate tests, referrals all out of FEAR of being SUED!
--- Emergency medicine, primary care, and OB/GYN physicians are most likely to practice defensive medicine.
--- 79 to 83% of surgeons and OB/GYNs have been named in lawsuits.
"Physicians contracted by the federal government practice significantly less defensive medicine as they are protected against lawsuits by the
1946 Federal Tort Claims Act. "
-- BUT........Only 48% practice defensive medicine compared to 92% of non-government physicians.
Consider that fact that of the physicians interviewed 52% DID NOT practice defensive medicine!
Who were they? Doctors contracted by federal government!
WHY did these doctors NOT practice "defensive medicine"??? 1946 Tort reform!

 

[Markle]

3) Denmark is the happiest place on Earth

Like little children in a nursery school, the happy Danes frolic about while Mommy and Daddy keep away the realities of the world from them so they can enjoy themselves.

Don't worry, little Danes. America will do all the heavy lifting and grownup work and keep you safe and sound in your little cocoon.

Our military has done a great job bringing peace to the Middle East...

3) Denmark is the happiest place on Earth

Like little children in a nursery school, the happy Danes frolic about while Mommy and Daddy keep away the realities of the world from them so they can enjoy themselves.

Don't worry, little Danes. America will do all the heavy lifting and grownup work and keep you safe and sound in your little cocoon.

Our military has done a great job bringing peace to the Middle East...

Where have they brought peace? We brought peace until Lame Duck President Obama abandoned Iraq. You would recall that Lame Duck President Obama, along with his Vice President both claimed VICTORY AND A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT in Iraq for this administration.

 

[Markle]

Wow you don't know how to read a chart.

The chart was titled "Denmark Personal Income Tax Rate"

Yeah personal income as in the inclusion of ALL sources of income like pensions. It's not like the taxes taken from their employment is at that level. That means not everyone would be taxes at that level.

Of course, again, the Danish are the happiest and have a better quality of life than those in the US. Your point is moot.

Wow you don't know how to read a chart.

The chart was titled "Denmark Personal Income Tax Rate"

Yeah personal income as in the inclusion of ALL sources of income like pensions. It's not like the taxes taken from their employment is at that level. That means not everyone would be taxes at that level.

Of course, again, the Danish are the happiest and have a better quality of life than those in the US. Your point is moot.

A distinction even the Danes don't understand. As for their quality of life, again, it all depends on the criteria. Kindly list them for us.

I already did lol. It was in the OP,

"The World Happiness Report, which determines which nation’s population is the “happiest” using criteria like life expectancy, GDP, social safety nets, as well as factors like “perception of corruption” and “freedom to make life choices,” found that Denmark was the happiest country. The US, in the meantime, ranked #17 on the same list."

Its way subjective. Like a lobster boiling in a pot, they don't know how much their life sucks because they don't know anything else.



Like you Billy...


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They seem to have a lot of things that would make me happy.

Seriously, what good is a lot of free time, if you cannot afford to do anything but sit at home?

 

[initforme]

Why have we adopted the 40 hour work week anyway? Talk about time spent working....life goes buy as we run around in this godforsaken rat race only to look back and say wow I wasted away my life at work.

 

[Markle]

The evidence is quite compelling. This is the kind of stuff I love rubbing in republicans' faces. Repubs like to think that both they, and the US, is superior to anyone else in the world but the truth is countries like Denmark are really just laughing at them.

1) Unemployed workers get 90% of their previous salary for two years.

Denmark has a tremendous social safety net for unemployed workers — any worker who worked at least 52 weeks over a three-year period can qualify to have 90 percent of their original salary paid for, for up to two years. The Danish government also has plentiful training programs for out-of-work Danes. As a result, 73 percent of Danes between 15 and 64 have a paying job, compared to 67 percent of Americans.

2) Denmark spends far less on healthcare than the US does.

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), the US spends twice as much per capita on healthcare than in Denmark, where taxpayer-funded universal healthcare is available for all citizens. 2009 OECD data shows that the U.S. spent an average of $7,290 per person on healthcare. Denmark spent just $3,512. World Bank data, as seen in the chart above, shows Danish healthcare costs are about $3,000 less per capita than in the US.

3) Denmark is the happiest place on Earth

The World Happiness Report, which determines which nation’s population is the “happiest” using criteria like life expectancy, GDP, social safety nets, as well as factors like “perception of corruption” and “freedom to make life choices,” found that Denmark was the happiest country. The US, in the meantime, ranked #17 on the same list.

4)Denmark has the shortest work week on average.

Denmark leads every other OECD nation in work-life balance. Danes work an average of 37 hours a week, earn an average of $46,000 USD annually, and have the right to 5 weeks of paid vacation per year. Here in the US, the average worker puts in an average of 47 hours a week, and only takes 16 days of vacation a year. This is largely due to a more stressful work climate, in which wages are stagnating while costs are rising. Combine that with a highly-competitive job market, and that means more Americans are willing to chain themselves to their desk then to risk taking vacation days and coming back to find someone else took their job.

5) Denmark pays students $900 per month to attend college.

Here in the US, the cost of going to college has soared by over 500 percent in the last 30 years. But in Denmark, not only is college free, but students are actually paid $900 USD per month to go to school, provided they live on their own. And this funding lasts up to six years. By contrast, the average US student pays over $31,000 a year in tuition to attend a private university, out-of-state residents at public universities pay $22,000 a year in tuition, and tuition costs for in-state residents at those same universities is still over $9,000.

6) Denmark has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world.

In Denmark, despite a short work week and a generous social safety net, workers make more than enough to meet basic needs. According to per capita income data from the World Bank, Denmark’s per capita income is roughly $5,000 higher than in the US.

7) Denmark has one of the lowest poverty rates. The US has one of the highest.

The benefits of living in Denmark are far-reaching — out of all OECD countries, Denmark has the second-lowest poverty rate at 0.6 percent. To compare, the OECD average of 11.3 percent is still lower than the 14.5 percent poverty rate in the US.

8) Denmark is rated #1 for best country for business

In 2014, Forbes ranked Denmark as the #1 best country for business.

Forbes used 11 different criteria to rank countries — innovation, property rights, red tape, taxes, investor protection, stock market performance, technology, corruption, personal freedom, freedom of trade, and monetary freedom.

Under the same criteria, the US ranked #18.

9) New parents in Denmark get 52 weeks of paid leave. US parents don't get shit.

The Danish government gives new parents an average of 52 weeks — a full year — of paid time off after having a child. Those 52 weeks can be allocated however the parents wish. In addition to the 52 weeks, new moms get 4 weeks of maternity leave before giving birth and 14 weeks after. Even new fathers get 2 additional weeks after the birth of their child. But here in the US, 1 in 4 new mothers go back to work within two weeks of having a child.

This is what Democratic Socialism really looks like. Is this the dystopian nightmare that Republicans are making it out to be, or an ideal vision of what Americans could have if we came together and demanded it from our government?


Here are 9 reasons Denmark's socialist economy leaves the US in the dust

Denmark has a smaller population than most major metropolitan areas in America

Apples and oranges

Next time war breaks out in Europe you'll know why it sucks to live in Denmark

So you see success and just write it off?

Write it off?

how the fuck could we apply any of that to America?

We're massive and our governance structure is very different. 900 dollars for tuition in the American education market? How far is that going ot get you?

Oh that's the American way, it's impossible.

I think we should look at what they are doing and possibly take from it. It is free college plus $900. Think any student would be happy with that

Free anything is worth exactly what you pay and is appreciated just as much.

 

[Kondor3]

Reason No. 1...

Denmark has been living under the American Shield since 1945...

They only have to commit a tiny fraction of its GDP to Defense, unlike the Shield Holder...

This frees them to devote a much larger percentage of GDP to social programming...

Like most of Europe, thanks to the US...

Being the Biggest Dog in the Yard, there is no Defense Sugar Daddy in OUR future...

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We have more illegal aliens in 3 states than Denmark has citizens.

I hope Trump deports Billy

 

[Markle]

Why have we adopted the 40 hour work week anyway? Talk about time spent working....life goes buy as we run around in this godforsaken rat race only to look back and say wow I wasted away my life at work.

Why have we adopted the 40 hour work week anyway? Talk about time spent working....life goes buy as we run around in this godforsaken rat race only to look back and say wow I wasted away my life at work.

I cannot remember when I've ever worked only 40 hours in a week. I have been a Realtor here in Tallahassee Florida for over 40 years and have LOVED every minute. I am also a licensed RE Instructor and professional speaker. This afforded me the luxury of earning what I know I am worth and taking time off is MY choice.
I'm sorry you weren't able to enjoy your work.

 

[Brain357]

3) Denmark is the happiest place on Earth

Like little children in a nursery school, the happy Danes frolic about while Mommy and Daddy keep away the realities of the world from them so they can enjoy themselves.

Don't worry, little Danes. America will do all the heavy lifting and grownup work and keep you safe and sound in your little cocoon.

Our military has done a great job bringing peace to the Middle East...

3) Denmark is the happiest place on Earth

Like little children in a nursery school, the happy Danes frolic about while Mommy and Daddy keep away the realities of the world from them so they can enjoy themselves.

Don't worry, little Danes. America will do all the heavy lifting and grownup work and keep you safe and sound in your little cocoon.

Our military has done a great job bringing peace to the Middle East...

Where have they brought peace? We brought peace until Lame Duck President Obama abandoned Iraq. You would recall that Lame Duck President Obama, along with his Vice President both claimed VICTORY AND A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT in Iraq for this administration.

You mean bush used our military spending to throw the Middle East into chaos.

 

[Brain357]

Yeah personal income as in the inclusion of ALL sources of income like pensions. It's not like the taxes taken from their employment is at that level. That means not everyone would be taxes at that level.

Of course, again, the Danish are the happiest and have a better quality of life than those in the US. Your point is moot.

Yeah personal income as in the inclusion of ALL sources of income like pensions. It's not like the taxes taken from their employment is at that level. That means not everyone would be taxes at that level.

Of course, again, the Danish are the happiest and have a better quality of life than those in the US. Your point is moot.

A distinction even the Danes don't understand. As for their quality of life, again, it all depends on the criteria. Kindly list them for us.

I already did lol. It was in the OP,

"The World Happiness Report, which determines which nation’s population is the “happiest” using criteria like life expectancy, GDP, social safety nets, as well as factors like “perception of corruption” and “freedom to make life choices,” found that Denmark was the happiest country. The US, in the meantime, ranked #17 on the same list."

Its way subjective. Like a lobster boiling in a pot, they don't know how much their life sucks because they don't know anything else.



Like you Billy...


.

They seem to have a lot of things that would make me happy.

Seriously, what good is a lot of free time, if you cannot afford to do anything but sit at home?

I'm sure they have plenty of money. They are saving on healthcare and college and retirement.

 

[Brain357]

Reason No. 1...

Denmark has been living under the American Shield since 1945...

They only have to commit a tiny fraction of its GDP to Defense, unlike the Shield Holder...

This frees them to devote a much larger percentage of GDP to social programming...

Like most of Europe, thanks to the US...

Being the Biggest Dog in the Yard, there is no Defense Sugar Daddy in OUR future...

Have we gotten any return on our military investing? Seems it often makes things worse...

 

[blackhawk]

I guess thats why so many people are moving to Denmark.

 

[Markle]

There's the equivalent of the federal income tax which tops out at 56% and every town city and municipality also taxes income those rates range from 20-27%

If you live in Copenhagen the municipal tax rate is 24% added to the governmental income tax. And then there's that 25% sales tax

Yeah great place to work if you want most of your money going to the fucking government to pay for lazy fucks like Billy here

Ah how convenient for you to forget that the percentage of those who have jobs in Denmark is higher than that of the US.

We have a 5% unemployment rate so everyone who wants to work is working

Uhhh that's not what that means

It means that 5% of the population is looking for a job.

Not that 5% of the population isn't willing to get up for a wage worth getting up for

True, 5% of the population is all who are looking for a job.

Meanwhile, 94 MILLION have dropped out of the job market altogether. We now have the LOWEST Job Participation Rate since the '70's.

 

[Blackrook]

Socialist countries like Denmark offer nothing to self-employed people like me, since so many of the benefits they force employees to give employers simply do not apply to a person in business for himself. Also, if I had a secretary, I could not afford to give her paid maternity leave, because then I would have to pay both her, and her replacement. So if there was such a law, I would hire a male secretary, or a female secretary who is too old to have babies.

 

[Billy000]

We have more illegal aliens in 3 states than Denmark has citizens.

I hope Trump deports Billy

Yes only a fascist Trump douche like you would hates everyone else's freedom of speech besides your own.

 

[Billy000]

There's the equivalent of the federal income tax which tops out at 56% and every town city and municipality also taxes income those rates range from 20-27%

If you live in Copenhagen the municipal tax rate is 24% added to the governmental income tax. And then there's that 25% sales tax

Yeah great place to work if you want most of your money going to the fucking government to pay for lazy fucks like Billy here

Ah how convenient for you to forget that the percentage of those who have jobs in Denmark is higher than that of the US.

We have a 5% unemployment rate so everyone who wants to work is working

Uhhh that's not what that means

It means that 5% of the population is looking for a job.

Not that 5% of the population isn't willing to get up for a wage worth getting up for

True, 5% of the population is all who are looking for a job.

Meanwhile, 94 MILLION have dropped out of the job market altogether. We now have the LOWEST Job Participation Rate since the '70's.

Lol the highest it ever was in 2000 and we are only 4% lower than that.

 

[nat4900]

If you like Denmark so much, don't let the door hit you in the rear as you leave to move there.

And please don't try to change the U.S. to conform to your socialist ideal.

Typical moronic response from dimwitted right wingers......The reality is that most European countries whose citizens live better than us, DO NOT want and will NOT allow just any American to live there unless they're bringing a good chunk of cash with the,,,,,,and that goes even more so for screwed up right wing morons like the poster above.

 

[Brain357]

The evidence is quite compelling. This is the kind of stuff I love rubbing in republicans' faces. Repubs like to think that both they, and the US, is superior to anyone else in the world but the truth is countries like Denmark are really just laughing at them.

1) Unemployed workers get 90% of their previous salary for two years.

Denmark has a tremendous social safety net for unemployed workers — any worker who worked at least 52 weeks over a three-year period can qualify to have 90 percent of their original salary paid for, for up to two years. The Danish government also has plentiful training programs for out-of-work Danes. As a result, 73 percent of Danes between 15 and 64 have a paying job, compared to 67 percent of Americans.

2) Denmark spends far less on healthcare than the US does.

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), the US spends twice as much per capita on healthcare than in Denmark, where taxpayer-funded universal healthcare is available for all citizens. 2009 OECD data shows that the U.S. spent an average of $7,290 per person on healthcare. Denmark spent just $3,512. World Bank data, as seen in the chart above, shows Danish healthcare costs are about $3,000 less per capita than in the US.

3) Denmark is the happiest place on Earth

The World Happiness Report, which determines which nation’s population is the “happiest” using criteria like life expectancy, GDP, social safety nets, as well as factors like “perception of corruption” and “freedom to make life choices,” found that Denmark was the happiest country. The US, in the meantime, ranked #17 on the same list.

4)Denmark has the shortest work week on average.

Denmark leads every other OECD nation in work-life balance. Danes work an average of 37 hours a week, earn an average of $46,000 USD annually, and have the right to 5 weeks of paid vacation per year. Here in the US, the average worker puts in an average of 47 hours a week, and only takes 16 days of vacation a year. This is largely due to a more stressful work climate, in which wages are stagnating while costs are rising. Combine that with a highly-competitive job market, and that means more Americans are willing to chain themselves to their desk then to risk taking vacation days and coming back to find someone else took their job.

5) Denmark pays students $900 per month to attend college.

Here in the US, the cost of going to college has soared by over 500 percent in the last 30 years. But in Denmark, not only is college free, but students are actually paid $900 USD per month to go to school, provided they live on their own. And this funding lasts up to six years. By contrast, the average US student pays over $31,000 a year in tuition to attend a private university, out-of-state residents at public universities pay $22,000 a year in tuition, and tuition costs for in-state residents at those same universities is still over $9,000.

6) Denmark has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world.

In Denmark, despite a short work week and a generous social safety net, workers make more than enough to meet basic needs. According to per capita income data from the World Bank, Denmark’s per capita income is roughly $5,000 higher than in the US.

7) Denmark has one of the lowest poverty rates. The US has one of the highest.

The benefits of living in Denmark are far-reaching — out of all OECD countries, Denmark has the second-lowest poverty rate at 0.6 percent. To compare, the OECD average of 11.3 percent is still lower than the 14.5 percent poverty rate in the US.

8) Denmark is rated #1 for best country for business

In 2014, Forbes ranked Denmark as the #1 best country for business.

Forbes used 11 different criteria to rank countries — innovation, property rights, red tape, taxes, investor protection, stock market performance, technology, corruption, personal freedom, freedom of trade, and monetary freedom.

Under the same criteria, the US ranked #18.

9) New parents in Denmark get 52 weeks of paid leave. US parents don't get shit.

The Danish government gives new parents an average of 52 weeks — a full year — of paid time off after having a child. Those 52 weeks can be allocated however the parents wish. In addition to the 52 weeks, new moms get 4 weeks of maternity leave before giving birth and 14 weeks after. Even new fathers get 2 additional weeks after the birth of their child. But here in the US, 1 in 4 new mothers go back to work within two weeks of having a child.

This is what Democratic Socialism really looks like. Is this the dystopian nightmare that Republicans are making it out to be, or an ideal vision of what Americans could have if we came together and demanded it from our government?


Here are 9 reasons Denmark's socialist economy leaves the US in the dust

Denmark has a smaller population than most major metropolitan areas in America

Apples and oranges

Next time war breaks out in Europe you'll know why it sucks to live in Denmark

So you see success and just write it off?

Write it off?

how the fuck could we apply any of that to America?

We're massive and our governance structure is very different. 900 dollars for tuition in the American education market? How far is that going ot get you?

Oh that's the American way, it's impossible.

I think we should look at what they are doing and possibly take from it. It is free college plus $900. Think any student would be happy with that

Free anything is worth exactly what you pay and is appreciated just as much.

Yes it is so bad they are the happiest country in the world.

 

[initforme]

Please don't hire anyone...