Bernie Sanders’ Danish utopia girds for deeper welfare cuts

A government commission now says Denmark needs to cut jobless benefits for graduates as part of a series of tweaks to keep other, more basic welfare services affordable.

Denmark’s economy expanded a quarterly 0.5 percent on average between 1991 and 2008.

[...] it has contracted 0.1 percent per quarter, on average.

[...] business leaders at some of Denmark’s biggest companies have grumbled that the country’s restrictive immigration and refugee policies are hampering their efforts to hire skilled workers as the labor market shows signs it may overheat.

[...] Denmark’s tax ministry — the office that collects all the money needed to pay for welfare services — has been embroiled in a series of scandals leading to firings after it emerged that efforts to digitalize tax collection failed miserably.