That is definetely not a myth, but also there is not a simple answer. First, their taxes rate are the highest in the world. And they are "social welfare state",

That is definetely not a myth, but also there is not a simple answer. First, their taxes rate are the highest in the world. And they are "social welfare state", and this is hard to balance, they are very expensive states. Norway, because of oil, has funds sufficient to guarantee the wealth of the next 10 generations, but not the other two. Also they are the most equal countries in the world. You may check any Gini index rank. This is incredibly important for me, but some people may find weird when a CEO has a salary only few times bigger than the average worker of his company. This equal, expensive, social welfare state demands a lot of unity of the population political view. Something that sounds impossible on big countries. These countries have a LOT to teach regarding public education and public health, but they are not copy and paste solutions, their solutions are very hard to emulate.