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    Cracks in Norway’s welfare system

    Cracks in Norway’s welfare system

    An aging population and migration of people needed government assistance is breaking social services. If you don't have babies, and if those babies don't become productive tax payers you cannot afford generous welfare benefits.

    Aging populations have led to politicians across the region chipping away at the generous cradle-to-grave welfare state for years. In Denmark, next week’s election could prove a turning point as frustrated voters say: No more.

    Danes, like citizens of other Nordic nations, have largely been happy to shell out some of the highest taxes in the world, seeing them as a price worth paying for universal healthcare, education and elderly services.


    However, spending cuts by successive governments to reduce the public deficit have led to more people paying out of their own pockets for what used to be free.


    “We pay very high taxes in Denmark, and that’s alright. But in return, I think we can demand a certain service,” said pensioner Sonja Blytsoe.


    Her 92-year old mother, who has dementia, was told by her local council in the central Danish town of Assens that the cleaning of her small apartment at a nursing home would be almost halved to 10 times a year.


    Her mother, who lives off her state pension of 9,000 Danish crowns ($1,350) per month, could not afford to pay the roughly 1,000 crowns a month for a private cleaning firm, Blytsoe said.


    In an illustration of the simmering public anger at such cuts, the council’s move sparked an outcry on social media that prompted the prime minister to comment on the case in parliament and the decision to be reversed.


    The erosion of the welfare state has now become a defining issue in the June 5 general election in a country where people hand over an average 36% of their personal income to the state each month.
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    They are running out of people to tax.

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    I heard that Norway has saved one million dollars for every citizen residing there 5 or so years ago. Maybe they have spent that money?
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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmyz View Post
    I heard that Norway has saved one million dollars for every citizen residing there 5 or so years ago. Maybe they have spent that money?
    Its numbers. When the retired (and the welfare takers) outnumber the workers how do you suppose the system works?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Its numbers. When the retired (and the welfare takers) outnumber the workers how do you suppose the system works?
    I get that. Schadenfreude RE their welfare system meltdown too.
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    Isn't Norway one of Bernie's shining examples of social democracy or democratic socialism, whichever.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Isn't Norway one of Bernie's shining examples of social democracy or democratic socialism, whichever.
    Norway, or the Nordic States in general.
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