Every Dane born will cost society hundreds and thousands more than they pay back in taxes, according to a new forecast.
Experts have warned that the rising price of social services could spell doom for Denmark after the Centre for Political Studies (CEPOS) reported that each person in the country will result in an outlay of DEK 850,000 (USD 150,000). That’s DEK 100,000 (USD 17,600) more than the figures for 2004.
“As things stand, the Danish welfare model is not viable. It is steering straight towards doom” said Mads Lundby-Hansen, chief economist at CEPOS, in a report by Berlingske Tidende newspaper. “If we continue this way, we risk ending up like Greece or Ireland,” added another economic expert, Hans Jorgen Whitta-Jakobsen.
Professor Jorn Henrik Petersen, of the University of Southern Denmark, sits on a government panel of experts which attempts to find ways to sure-up the social welfare state. He believes that the responsibility for making the system work lies with individual citizens.
“If this system is to survive, we need to make sure that those who are in no immediate need of help try to stay away from public benefits,” he said.
50% of GDP is spent by the government, 33% of the population is directly employed by the government (we don’t need any more inefficient government works programs, thanks anyway), 22% of the eligible workforce (ages 16-66) exist mainly on government transfer payments and are basically decentivised from working due to high unemployments which are garnered for any funds generated by working (and unemployment payments extend for 2 years (down from 4 years!)).
With so many incentivised by big government and high taxes, it is impossible to get a majority support to decrease government spending or taxation.
The majority of the population has been thoroughly brainwashed to think that Denmark has the best education, healthcare and standard of living in the world and that anything Danish has to be the best.
One day we are in for one heck of a rude awakening—and by that time, it will be too late to do anything about it.
How much is going for immigrant support? You can stop the destruction of wealth by plugging that hole!
In the U.S.A., we created Social Security as a retirement supplement. In its original form, it could have gone in perpetuity without financial problems. What messed up the financial balance was adding on immigrants and others in the 1965 reforms. Such reforms added on human dead-weight that cannot, or will not, contribute to the system. Why??? They can VOTE!
It’s possible that, even with legitimate claims, there’s way too many Danes on welfare. Put them to work as was done in the U.S. during the Great Depression. PWA, CCC, and WPA work programs gave people a lot of useful work to do and we still enjoy the fruits of their labors today.
Still can’t balance the books? How much is being lost to foreign bond holders and interest payments? Demand a restructuring of payments or there will be a debt moratorium! NEVER NEVER NEVER SACRIFICE CIVILIZATION FOR THE SAKE OF PAPER!!! Denmark hasn’t gone to war for anything in centuries but, let the bondholders know that any retaliation by foreign governments on their behalf is an act of war and will be replied to in kind. Expel their diplomats and nationalize enemy corporations by force. Pull Danish holdings out of the enemy nation’s banks.
When you tangle with the global banking mafia in order to save Danish living standards, you have to be more brutal than they are.