Denmark: No one over, and no one beside!

[Johan]

... at least not when it comes to tax pressure; according to todays news: Tax revenues continue to rise across the OECD where you'll read:

Denmark has the highest tax-to-GDP ratio among OECD countries (48% in 2012), followed by...

- and in a more popular version found here --> The world's treasures throne (continued) Danish (translated with Google Translate) with this headline: Denmark: No one over, and no one beside!

Ooh, well - what to do?

But... you know what, at the same time we read again and again that we Danes nevertheless continue to be The Most Happy People In The Entire World; see e.g. World's happiest nation is... Denmark! Source = World Happiness Report 2013

Where's the logic? What if we (= the government) increased the tax pressure to, say, 85 % - would we then all simply explode of pure, overwhelming and eternal happiness?

Merry Christmas!

Johan

[RealBlackStuff]

Paying taxes is one thing.
Receiving social benefits is another thing.
Denmark is doing quite well in that respect, no reason really to complain.
And then there are all these thousands of Danish people who stash away their money in tax-havens (they obviously abundantly earned it first)...

Regardless, Happy Xmas to you too!