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  • Ragnor@feddit.dktoWorld News@lemmy.world•Finland is again ranked the happiest country in the world. The US falls to its lowest-ever positionEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Well, the taxes we have here in Denmark are quite high. We either have the fourth highest rate of tax compared to GDP or the highest, depending on which source you go by. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_tax_revenue_to_GDP_ratio

    The thing is just that taxes means that the money gets spent directly on improving the lives of the people who live here, instead of people having to buy stuff like health care through companies that skim off the top, and who uses the money you pay them to employ people who try to find ways to not help you.

    Taxes helps ensure that everything runs efficiently. A healthier population who are more productive, infrastructure that prevents disruptions to business and daily lives alike, and ensuring that people don’t have to resort to crime if they lose their job or get ill. Crime is another source of inefficiency that gets significantly reduced.

    Everything helps ensure that the average person is in a much better state of mind, and mood is contagious - even those who pay the most benefit off of it, and pretty much everyone here agrees that it’s money well spent.

    In Danish politics, even the right wing would be considered leftists in the US - we have a lot of political parties (16 in parliament, with 4 of them being from the Faeroe Islands or Greenland).

  • Ragnor@feddit.dktoFeddit.dk@feddit.dk•Velkommen til Feddit.dk
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    2 months ago

    Tak, men jeg fandt det ret hurtigt oppe under Communities i toppen. Scrollede bare de første 10-15 sider igennem efter at have valgt “all” for at se hvad der var jeg kunne være interesseret i, og søgte efter “physics” og “science”.

    På Reddit er r/AskPhysics nok den sub jeg bruger mest, sammen med r/Denmark.