“Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, who have had social democratic governments on and off for many, many years.”
Those countries don’t have a massive illegal immigration problem, they don’t have a deeply corrupt government on their southern border (or in their capital cities), they don’t have massive drug cartels flooding their countries will illegals, drug and gang violence and they get to rely on other countries like the US and the UK for their defense.
And the average house size in most of these countries is less than 1000 square feet. Income taxes approach or even exceed 50%.
Ahem, the Scandahoovian states that Comrade Bernie loves to cite have a tremendous immigration problem & are teeming with unassimilable Muslims whose only contribution is a skyrocketing crime rate & who are a huge drain on the economy.
Right about the high taxation & low home square footage. Saw that in Germany where the apartments seemed designed for midgets.
http://www.taxindenmark.com/article.65.html
Tax of around 50% plus a 25% VAT plus local taxes. Yup it’s all free!