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More accurately, Danes value their welfare state and high-equality society and are smart enough to accept that it has to be paid for. Therefore any campaign on cutting taxes immediately attracts the suspicion: what services are going to be cut?
So are you saying its unreasonable for services to become less costly over time ?
/generalization
>The main idea behind the change, which is now being discussed by parliament, is to make salaried work more attractive and woo some 40,000 people off welfare in the process. Not a bad plan for a country that faces labor shortages and growing pressure on its costly social safety net from an aging population.
This is a sales pitch for tax cuts on the rich, not an idea.
Somebody, somewhere made a campaign contribution and this is their reward.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
So are you saying its unreasonable for services to become less costly over time ?
Not unreasonable but so far unobserved. Any initiatives to reduce costs seem to increase an even costlier bureaucracy. /generalization
In other countries, taxes are complicated (no citation needed). There's income tax, but there are also social security payments, industry-specific taxes, etc. And you have to pay for your own education and healthcare! Danish tax is simple and all inclusive. It is around 50%, which is about the same as in US if all hidden obligatory payments are taken into account. But it is all inclusive: all education and healthcare…
More accurately, Danes value their welfare state and high-equality society and are smart enough to accept that it has to be paid for. Therefore any campaign on cutting taxes immediately attracts the suspicion: what services are going to be cut?
So are you saying its unreasonable for services to become less costly over time ?
More accurately, Danes value their welfare state and high-equality society and are smart enough to accept that it has to be paid for. Therefore any campaign on cutting taxes immediately attracts the suspicion: what services are going to be cut?
So are you saying its unreasonable for services to become less costly over time ?
If some public service would get cheaper (so fare all services seems to just get more and more expensive), there's a ton of other services that could really use the money that would be freed.
Honestly I think that the Danish public sector is a terrifying example of mismanagement of public funds. We simply aren't getting enough value for the taxes we pay. Part of it is insane ways of handling purchasing and outsource of public work.
More accurately, Danes value their welfare state and high-equality society and are smart enough to accept that it has to be paid for. Therefore any campaign on cutting taxes immediately attracts the suspicion: what services are going to be cut?
So are you saying its unreasonable for services to become less costly over time ?
I should probably expand on Baumol Cost Disease: many public services inherently involve humans doing touchy-feely automation-resistant things, and as the rest of the economy becomes more automated or imported this gradually becomes relatively more expensive. Things like childcare, where the cost in childminder-hours-per-child is inherently fixed. You can raise the ratio (ie reduce quality), but you can't produce an hour of childminding in 50 minutes.
Besides, when redistribution is a goal in itself, it's a mistake to talk purely about cost and you have to look at outcomes.
> Perhaps it's no coincidence then that their word for taxes, skat, also means “sweetheart”. The word "skat" means treasure . That's why we also use it as a word for our sweethearts.
In other countries, taxes are complicated (no citation needed). There's income tax, but there are also social security payments, industry-specific taxes, etc. And you have to pay for your own education and healthcare! Danish tax is simple and all inclusive. It is around 50%, which is about the same as in US if all hidden obligatory payments are taken into account. But it is all inclusive: all education and healthcare…
I get your point, but you make it sound like Denmark has flat tax. For the record, it does not.