I wasn't necessarily stating that Scandinavia is all that great.  I believe there are lots of good and bad things to be learned from how the various Scandinavian countries do things.

One area that I think they got right was corporate taxes were they have low tax rates (lower than Canada) but almost no 'corporate welfare'.  There are few targeted handouts, tax exemptions, grants, etc.

'CorporateSlave1', on the other hand, seems to feel that the Scandinavian countries have corporate taxes wrong and would seem to want an approach more akin to that of the United States with extremely high corporate taxes but a large system of tax credits and grants to reward individual industries or companies.

As a point of note, Finland with a corporate tax rate of 20% actually gets more revenue, relative to GDP, from corporate taxes than the U.S. does with a corporate tax rate of ~39.5%.