Denmark:
- Scandinavian country with a population of 5.6 million
- Welfare state - government programs designed to provide economic security
- universal health care
- free college education and student receive a stipend
- subsidized day care
- Working age families receive more than 3x as much aid as their U.S. counterparts
- Tax
- top income tax rate: 60.3 percent
- national sales tax: 25 percent
- tax take is almost half of national income
- Ranks at or near the top on international comparisons of life satisfaction :)
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