Left Loves Scandinavian Socialism. So Why are Scandinavians Moving Right?

By Published on October 20, 2015

As Bernie Sanders surges among leftist intelligentsia — an oxymoron if ever there was one — a new worship for Denmark has fallen upon the nation. During the last Democratic debate, Sanders name-checked Denmark as a beautiful example of a socialist utopia. Now, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has written glowingly of Denmark as a model for the United States in the pages of The New York Times. “Danes get a lot of things right, and in doing so refute just about everything US conservatives say about economics,” says Krugman. “And we can also learn a lot from the things Denmark has gotten wrong.”

Krugman praises Denmark’s welfare state, which he says is “beyond the wildest dreams of American liberals,” with universal health care, free college education, and magical day care. The tax rates, Krugman acknowledges, are confiscatory: 60.3 percent, plus a 25 percent national sales tax; the government grabs half of all income in the country. Krugman says that only top income-earners pay 60 percent, but that would include everyone earning more than $60,000.

 

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