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This cancel culture has gone too far.
The holiday was established more than three centuries ago.  Not saying that times don't change, but I'd expect complaints over something like this.
AND, the reason given is to generate tax revenue.  The optics are terrible. >

Terrible public relations on this. Cancel a public holiday to fund defence spending? Why not just raise tax 0.1% instead? Far less visible. >

They're lowering taxes at the same time.
It's a mess.
The social democratic party won the last election, but instead of forming a government with the left wing parties, as they've usually done, they choose to make a coalition with two right wing parties.
The result is this unwanted bastard child. They can't even defend the proposed law and nobody wants to admit where it actually came from.
The coalition was probably done to appease the opposition which was getting rather whiny. >

Not a good idea if you want to piss off the general public with the reason like that to cancel public holiday. >

Good on them. I am not Christian but let people have a few days of public holiday each year, even if the holiday doesn't make sense. >

Same here, hard atheist but if you want to have public holidays for some saint or whatever then have at it. What kind of idiot opposes public holidays? The more the merrier. >

Be cautious what you wish for. We have loads of public holidays in Egypt which negatively impacts work productivity, and I am saying this as an employee at the time and not as a business owner. >

I don't get how THAT is the obvious sollution that the Danish government came up with. Shouldn't cancelling a public holiday be pretty low on the list of possible measures? Couldn't raise a tax for large multinationals or something? >

Or just make them actually pay the rates we have now. >

Cancelling a public day off is the type of cartoonish villainy that gets folks defenestrated >

Tbh I think the goverment here had one of it's "good idea moments" as they do, and were challenging old time ideas, by saying, well people don't care all that much about the holiday, they aren't super religious any more! Which we aren't tbh. However we aren't going to roll back our public holidays, just for the sake of funding governmental spending. Nice try though.