Denmark taxed at 60% to pay for this welfare system. Try that here.
Sorry, forgot the VAT too
I remember walking into a Danish grocery...around 2003 and here was the liquor area. A bottle of Jack Daniels would have cost around $15 in the US at the time (sales tax figured). Here was the same bottle (with the VAT already mixed into the price listed) for around $32 in local currency.
The real indication of the failure of the Scandinavian models is the negative birthrate for decades; those people are disappearing and have no choice but to import immigrants. The high costs of socialism always reflect in negative birthrates.