Sunday morning happiness!

January 13th, 2008 happiness

ABC’s 20/20 did a full feature this past Friday evening on ‘Happiness’. A topic like this has a lot of elements to explore of course, but one that stood out for me was the assertion that the “happiest” country is Denmark (I guessed Iceland – having no idea why that might be…). For those of us distressed about Vermont being the most “taxed” state, this is not good news since the income tax rate in Denmark is between 50 and 70! Imagine that?

Why that might be - is an interesting question in itself and is addressed in the web posting on the show. But to compare Denmark to Vermont … I don’t think so.

Here’s a question for you this Sunday morning – would you be happier living in Denmark?

Here’s another question for you: what makes you happy?

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