{"id":1677,"date":"2009-03-01T19:42:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/2009\/03\/01\/why-i-dont-miss-denmark\/"},"modified":"2009-03-01T19:42:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T17:42:38","slug":"why-i-dont-miss-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t miss Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Tax Reform: <a href=\"http:\/\/jp.dk\/indland\/indland_politik\/article1618441.ece\" target=\"_blank\">The Government fails to lower the marignal tax<\/a> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">from 63 %<\/span>. However, new taxes are issued on everything from computers to gummi bears.<\/p>\n<p>The reform shuffles some taxes around, but fails to address the two main problems: The general level of taxation and the high marginal taxes. The American economic policy seems quite foolish at the moment, but the Danish has for years appeared completely self-destructive. It simply <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laffer_curve\" target=\"_blank\">makes no sense to tax the citizens this hard<\/a> no matter how much you are pro or against government spending.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I see now that the <a href=\"http:\/\/politiken.dk\/politik\/article659652.ece\" target=\"_blank\">middle marginal tax<\/a> in fact has been removed, so the highest tax is now 56 %. However, all gains are counter-moved with new taxes. Additionally there are wild protests against the reform &#8211; as it creates &#8216;inequality&#8217; &#8211; and the opposition vows to roll back the reform when they come to power. Which is probably very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: When it comes to taxes, politics in Denmark basically treats citizens like cattle they can boss around any way they want to. Not a nice thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Tax Reform: The Government fails to lower the marignal tax from 63 %. However, new taxes are issued on everything from computers to gummi bears. The reform shuffles some taxes around, but fails to address the two main problems: The general level of taxation and the high marginal taxes. The American economic policy seems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/?p=1677\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s mere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I don&#8217;t miss Denmark<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,36,24],"tags":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}