[Capt. Tom]

One reader admitted that the Danish welfare state is very expensive but claimed that it is worth the price. If high taxes buy a society where people feel secure, where crime levels are low, and where people are well educated and live long and healthy lives, maybe the high taxes aren't such a terrible thing!

This country was founded on opportunity and not security. That is one reason we are so far ahead of these othere countries economically.

Unfortunately the socialists(democrats) want to turn that around.

[bandleader]

You Are EXACTLY CORRECT!If all we wanted was"security"and"safety",this country would never have been founded!!The United States of America was founded on a bedrock of FREEDOM and OPPORTUNITY!!!The DemonRats don't like this and are incrementally trying to erode FREEDOM while increasing DEPENDENCY on an ever burgeoning GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!

[45Auto]

Ultimately, socialism fails everywhere it is tried because it fails to recognize one thing: its basic premise destroys incentive. It punishes the productive and rewards the indolent. In so doing it merely creates more indolent.