Why Does Europe Take Better Care of Its People Than America?

[mawilson 2,133]

Perhaps these countries just ran up piles of debt in the course of taking better care of their people?

Yes, they did.

That's not the case; among the world's wealthy democracies only six – Japan, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Belgium and Italy – had a higher ratio of debt to GDP than the United States last year.

"Only" six? The UK and others are not too far behind.

Denmark's debt level was less than half of our own.

Denmark's *minimum* tax rate is 42 percent. Minimum, as in the lowest bracket. The rate the poor get taxed at.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Denmark is such an odd country in the way it is run. Yet it seems very successful, with low unemployment and low poverty.

[Alex & Rachel 78]

Denmark is such an odd country in the way it is run. Yet it seems very successful, with low unemployment and low poverty.

And its people are supposedly the happiest! (There was a more recent article, too, but I've lost it).

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

And its people are supposedly the happiest! (There was a more recent article, too, but I've lost it).

That is because they are stoned out of their minds, and attending wild sex orgies.