Denmark has been described as a socialist hellhole by FOX...

@SomeMichGuy Or sports stadiums built with taxpayer money.

@Crazywaterspring YES

@graphite 2014. Very up to date. I'm not going to even bother. Except to say that Denmark no longer has the highest taxes in the world.

But here's the thing. These taxes actually get used to pay for free childcare, massively subsidised energy bills, free university, etc. etc.

@iamthe99 Denmark is another country with a sub-replacement-level birth rate (1.55). Perhaps not too many children to take care of?

Also, check out this bit on the highest personal tax rates in the world in 2025:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/highest-taxed-countries

1. Finland 3. Denmark.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/highest-taxed-countries

So they've dropped to third place. Yay.

@graphite Excuses excuses :) particularly as the US's is only marginally higher, and still sub.

@iamthe99 Make it permanent

@BrandNewMan Nah, my home country is just as good. And also, it's not America😮‍💨

@iamthe99 Perfect ..

@iamthe99 They get "free" nothing -- they pay for it via high taxes and a quick internet search comes up with the cost of living in Denmark being over 3% higher than the cost of living in the USA.

@ChipmunkErnie 3% higher. OK. How much higher is the cost of healthcare in the US?

@iamthe99 Not sure, but then I'm not sure if "cost of living" includes health care or not. If my sales tax more than tripled, though, I'd expect some damned good health care from it. But another search comes up with tax burden on Danes is more than triple that of total taxes on Americans (40+% vs about 16%). BUT I have the feeling that the Danish tax burden is spread much more evenly across the population than the US tax system allows.

@badminton My eyes! My eyes!

@AlanAPartridge Is that supposed to mean something...?