Mogens Lykketoft, former Minister for Finance of Denmark, once promised regarding his plan to radically increase taxes that, “Even after this tax reform, there will still be capitalists left in Denmark.” His statement is very telling of his rather low view of capitalism – that the Danish society should move toward “more state”, not less, and that capitalists were a minority that should simply be tolerated.
The majority of Danish politicians intuitively believe that capitalists are an unpleasant necessity to generate the revenues to fund the social welfare state.
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