most welfare schemes are affordable, because what you pay out for in healthcare/social housing/education, you save in the costs of things like prisons, disability support, and the like.
Exactly, and places like Denmark prove it. The money doesn't evaporate. It flows down and circulates. It goes into peoples pay and they go out and spend it in the shops and restaurants. The businesses make money and they pay their taxes. High taxes. And people aren't spending all their money on rent and mortgages. We got a 20 year fixed rate mortgage at 2.5%. Nothing like that exists in Britain. We got an immaculate 90 sq m apartment in the absolute centre of Copenhagen for just under £315,000. And this was despite a property boom that saw prices rising 20% in the last 2 years.
This is our postcode.
I cant imagine what it would cost in London.
Britain's got so many problems that Denmark have solved/avoided.
But they haven't had the evil British press. Murdoch and the Barclay brothers. Viscount fucking Rothermere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Harmsworth,_4th_Viscount_Rothermere
They've got 5 million people. Less natural resources and yet they've built the happiest and (almost) the wealthiest society in the world. Careful socially minded policies. Minimum defence spending. Excellent local services, excellent schools, high standard of living and short working week. Lots of money spent on infrastructure. Public ownership. Even a worker in Burger King gets about $20 an hour here. Rent controls. 80% of people are in a union. Socialism wasn't vilified. It's worked
Britain got Thatcher, Blair, Cameron. Parliament is like pantomime.