Scandinavia - working socialist economies?

[JimNashe]

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So, again, if your gang is big enough, lynching is legitimate?

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That's the trouble unfortunately with Democracy.

I am a citizen of a scandinavian socialist state and if I had my way Denmark would move to a flat-rate tax immediately and make it our central policy for the next 20 years to lower taxes as much as possible. Privatization of higher education and health-care would be high on my list of priorities, so in essence I'm as close to a libertarian as you can find here.

The problem is that my view is not shared by the majority of the danish population who seem to value egalitarianism (nobody should be richer or poorer than the next guy) over personal freedom and an efficient economic society. And in a society where more than 50% of the people are either employed in the public sector, or recieves government help in some way, it's a tough sell for politicians to cut back taxes.

Now you might say, why don't I just move away, and I ask myself the same thing every day. But I think part of reason that more people do not leave is that it's not as easy in Europe as it is in the US. We don't all speak the same language and the laws and societies are quite different from one another.