Other than that it’s a CIVIC duty??? From the Front Page Sections, translated…
Over half of the population in Denmark were made to pay sixty percent of their wages, but, not only do the Danish people happy to pay such a high percentage, when they’d discovered, that their tax rates were reduced, they’d become, dissatisfied. And, the country that pressured the citizens into paying such a heavy tax rate is actually the happiest country in the entire world, Denmark had ranked, at the very TOP of the list of the happiest countries in the world.
The writer on a book on being happy said, that the “Danish people loved paying their taxes” showed the philosophy that the Danish people lived by; trust, willingness to share, not focused on money, emphasis on the communities. All of these point toward the ultimate value of the Danish culture: the pursuit of happiness, instead of success.
In a survey in 2012 conducted by the Danish government, nearly seventy-percent of the citizens of Denmark believed that the tax rates were fair, there were, twenty percent of the individuals who believed, that they’re not paying enough taxes; there are over sixty percent of the population who stated that if there’s a tax reduction, they would be very unhappy about it.
The Taiwanese people HATE paying taxes, fearing that “the government is going to take the money for itself”. Hilde said, that the Danish population not only trust the government completely, they’d also trusted everybody around one another. “Trust” is a habit. Since Hilde could recall, the fruit stands by the suburb streets in Denmark had fruits and jars, because the farmers couldn’t find people to look after the stands for them. The farmers in Denmark trusted their customers entirely, and would wait until it’s time to put up their stands, to return, to collect the money they’d made that day.
“The more people trusted in one another, the happier they would all become.”, Hilde said, that the trust that the Danish people has included how they believed that the government will collect everybody’s taxes equally, and make investments that would benefit the nation’s people as a whole.
The Danish people enjoyed paying their taxes, and are not into accumulating of wealth. Hilde said, that the Danish focuses on simplicities of life, instead of extravagance, like the styles of the furniture pieces of Norway. “We believe that extravagance is the opposite of warmth, extravagance is showing off, and being warm gets you love.”
The tax laws focused on the redistribution of incomes, investing in social welfare, to help the “flow of the society”, no matter how one is born, everybody has equal opportunities for education and getting a job, and the social statuses can be changed during one’s lifetime. Hilde said, that the Danish would rather give up becoming millionaires, “They believed, that the equality of statuses, everybody in the group having happiness, that, is what makes them happy individually.”
So here, we have a nation that focused on the wellbeing of the ENTIRE population, and, this may look like socialism, with the equal distribution of wealth, etc., etc., etc., and, this may seem weird to the nations in the Western world, but, think about it, only when the citizens are happy, will the nations function well, just like in Gestalt concept, the SUM of the PARTS is GREATER than the WHOLE???
Life, the Obstacle Course 