THIS IS HOW THE STATE CONTROLS YOU. AN EXAMPLE. (Danish in comment section)
In the world’s highest taxed country - Denmark - we pay up to half of our salary to the state.
Both laws were passed under Social Democrat governments. Mette Frederiksen’s governments. The same Prime Minister who talks about freedom and family values - while systematically undermining both.
In return, the state promises to take care of us. Look after us. Protect us.
But it forgets to tell us that the price of that care is control.
Let’s take two examples. Both passed by the same state. Both wrapped in the word equality.
Parental leave - 2022.
On March 3rd, 2022, the Danish Parliament passed a new parental leave law. The background was an EU directive. From August 2nd, 2022, 11 weeks of parental leave are earmarked for the mother - and 11 weeks for the father. They cannot be transferred. If the father doesn’t use his weeks - the family loses them.
I spoke yesterday with a young woman in our building. She had one week of her maternity leave left. She was still breastfeeding.
She could barely comprehend that it was over. That next week she would have to return to work - hand her breastfeeding baby to her husband - because the state had decided that was what was right for her family. Not because she wanted to. Not because her child was ready. Not because her body was done. But because the state said so.
Conscription - 2025.
On July 1st, 2025, yet another law came into effect. From now on, women are subject to full conscription on the same terms as men. The justification? Equality.
Because we all know that men and women are completely biologically and physically identical. Built for exactly the same things. 🤡
So if you have a daughter - she can look forward to, when she turns 18 - being called up for Armed Forces Day. Drawing a lottery number. And potentially serving 11 months of military service. And risking being sent to war.
Not because she chose it. But because the state decided it.
And now comes the argument I often hear.
Yes, but when the state pays you - it can also decide. Can it?
We live in the world’s highest taxed country. We pay up to 50% of our income in tax. Our entire lives. These are not the state’s money it gives us. These are our own money we get back - in a form the state has decided is appropriate.
The right answer is not to accept control as the price for the money.
The right answer is to lower taxes - and give families the freedom and the money to decide over their own lives.
Freedom is not a privilege the state grants you. It is something you are born with.
And which the state slowly - gradually - decision by decision - law by law - takes from you. ❤️🔥✝️🪽