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Think having a high GDP = Happiness? Think again, America is 11th in Happiness even with the highest GDP. Maybe that's because we're 15th on a per capita basis. If you want to be happy, says a new Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development survey, move to the chilly climes of Northern Europe, and pay up to 2/3 in taxes.

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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.

His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/

Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)

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