Denmark get these things right, IMHO, but they get plenty of things wrong too.
In denmark rather than having to fill out a folder of paperwork every year they just send you a letter along with the forms pre-filled out and say; This is what you owe us, if it's wrong contact us within 2 weeks, otherwise we'll just take the money out of your bank account.
In denmark you get paid to go to school, rather than the reverse.
In denmark everyone has healthcare, you can buy private insurance if you don't want to have to wait as long for non-emergency treatment.
In denmark thanks to the strong unemployment protections recessions are never as severe as they are elsewhere, as the unemployment benefits automaticly help stabilize the economy.
In denmark there is effective regulations on many things, meaning that cellphones and internet accesses are about an order of magnitude cheaper or better.
Now there is also plenty of things denmark gets wrong, such as the absurd tax on all books to reimburse danish authors who otherwise couldn't make a living. If you can get a used paperback for 30$ you are getting it cheap. There are many other such language subsedies to try and keep the language alive, but it's probably a lost cause, 5 million people is just not enough to sustain a language these days. There are also quite some things that are over-regulated and over-subzidized, like farming (as opposed to america where it's under regulated and over-subzidized is the norm).
Other things are more of a different choice, which I quite frankly think is the better choice, such as choosing stability over growth, the massive social programs have a very real cost in that the economy won't grow as fast during the upswing, which has the counterpoint of not shrinking as much or as fast during the downswing, it also means that it is much much harder to get a job, but once you have it it is more secure. The prices of everything are higher, but on the counterpoint there is far less poverty.
Some stuff is also just stupid, such as restricting building's heights to keep the skyline the same as it has been since the eighteen hundreds or so.
There is also the negative of not getting the shiny toys as soon, but once they get them they tend to be shinier. For example, Internet access was nowhere near as good as it was in the us even as recently as 2000 or so, and was more expensive. Now internet connectivity is both cheaper and better. This wouldn't be the case without an open market where these things can be developed and deployed more freely, but in such a market you tend to have problems with local monopolies or duopolies that collude, whcih is what you have in most of the USA.
Now america couldn't afford denmarks approch because denmark is a far richer country (per capacita) then America. And all those benefits have a very real cost of paying roughly twice as much in taxes (but no, or at least much lesser student debt, no need to pay for health insurance, etc).
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
In denmark rather than having to fill out a folder of paperwork every year they just send you a letter along with the forms pre-filled out and say; This is what you owe us, if it's wrong contact us within 2 weeks, otherwise we'll just take the money out of your bank account.
In denmark you get paid to go to school, rather than the reverse.
In denmark everyone has healthcare, you can buy private insurance if you don't want to have to wait as long for non-emergency treatment.
In denmark thanks to the strong unemployment protections recessions are never as severe as they are elsewhere, as the unemployment benefits automaticly help stabilize the economy.
In denmark there is effective regulations on many things, meaning that cellphones and internet accesses are about an order of magnitude cheaper or better.
Now there is also plenty of things denmark gets wrong, such as the absurd tax on all books to reimburse danish authors who otherwise couldn't make a living. If you can get a used paperback for 30$ you are getting it cheap. There are many other such language subsedies to try and keep the language alive, but it's probably a lost cause, 5 million people is just not enough to sustain a language these days. There are also quite some things that are over-regulated and over-subzidized, like farming (as opposed to america where it's under regulated and over-subzidized is the norm).
Other things are more of a different choice, which I quite frankly think is the better choice, such as choosing stability over growth, the massive social programs have a very real cost in that the economy won't grow as fast during the upswing, which has the counterpoint of not shrinking as much or as fast during the downswing, it also means that it is much much harder to get a job, but once you have it it is more secure. The prices of everything are higher, but on the counterpoint there is far less poverty.
Some stuff is also just stupid, such as restricting building's heights to keep the skyline the same as it has been since the eighteen hundreds or so.
There is also the negative of not getting the shiny toys as soon, but once they get them they tend to be shinier. For example, Internet access was nowhere near as good as it was in the us even as recently as 2000 or so, and was more expensive. Now internet connectivity is both cheaper and better. This wouldn't be the case without an open market where these things can be developed and deployed more freely, but in such a market you tend to have problems with local monopolies or duopolies that collude, whcih is what you have in most of the USA.
Now america couldn't afford denmarks approch because denmark is a far richer country (per capacita) then America. And all those benefits have a very real cost of paying roughly twice as much in taxes (but no, or at least much lesser student debt, no need to pay for health insurance, etc).
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."