Thank you very much for your reply Christian.

Based on your reply, it seems to me that the classical liberalism wasn’t such a bad idea after all 🙂

No, that’s actually not permissible. The serious literature shows tht redistribution has_no_effects. Taxation also seems to have zero effects. So there are no effects that cancel each other out, and no positive effects other than whatever it takes to secure peace and effective property rights protection.
But we do see negative effects when focusing on what is known as ‘government final consumption expenditure’ – that is how much economic activity is handled by the government. The government – and most likely in particular central government – is just really bad at delivering any kinds of private goods.

My cousins have lived their entire lives in the US, and while it is not a problem for the one in Washington, it is for the other one who’s married to a girl from Georgia and who lives in New Mexico.

It is permissible to say that the state interventions in the marketplace (taxation, regulation etc.) has negative effects, but if combined with redistribution the negative effects are cancelled out?

If this is so, what does this mean in respect to “pareto optimality”? More precisely, does it mean that if you could imagine a state which only redistributes and doesn’t interfere with the market except for taxation, would such a state improve happiness in society?

Is it permissible to say that forced redistribution from rich to poor by taxation by the state can improve happines in society?

I’ve lived in the US my entire life and haven’t seen that. I’ve been lambasted in internet forums by atheists for daring to be religious though.

and Paris 🙁

There are no Western countries that force people to believe in some or a particular religion. My point is that in some countries, not having religious beliefs is a_social_taboo. Being irreligious is clearly a social problem in parts of the US, as well as Malta and Turkey.

I can’t think of a country in the west that forces someone to believe a religion.

Strengt taget ville jeg mene at velfærdsstaten påvirker lykken negativt, når man når grænsen, altså man skal se på integralet af velfærden.

Et spørgsmål som så trænger sig på, er hvad der kan undergrave tilliden. Den store indvandring fører jo mange ind i landet uden samme tillid i kulturballasten, men det ser i følge dine grafer ikke ud til at påvirke, eller hvad?