[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Paul Sture]

On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:03:39 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply
wrote:

> In article <P2yCq.57104$R36.43355 at newsfe10.ams2>, ChrisQ
> <meru at devnull.com> writes:
> 
>> Of course, state intervention can get out of hand. Apparently, Denmark
>> has the
>> highest standard of health care in the world, free at point of need,
>> but it has
>> to be paid for from high taxation. What they don't do, however is go
>> around the
>> world spending billions on unnecessary wars and other foreign
>> adventures, so
>> they have more $ to spend for the common good.
> 
> Denmark regularly turns up at #1 in surveys of the happiness of the
> people in various countries.  Yes, taxes are the highest in the world
> (interestingly, within the last couple of decades, the Social Democrats
> have been in power for only the last few months; the highest taxes in
> the world existed during the previous government (which, in US parlance,
> would be considered libertarian)) but the total money spent on health
> care per person is less than in the US, but the quality is better.  BTW,
> although details vary, essentially all European countries are similar to
> Denmark, at least when compared to the US.

I am led to understand that while the headline tax rates in Denmark are 
so high, many don't actually pay that amount.  Sorry, don't know the 
details, but back when the UK had high tax rates (marginally over 100% in 
certain cases), there were plenty of mechanisms to escape that, such as 
trust funds to educate and provide for kids.



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Paul Sture