Posted on 05/17/2016 8:00:26 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
His collegiate followers are receptive to Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders exhortations that the United States should be more like Sweden and its Scandinavian neighbors. Yet and still, the self-identified socialist should be careful what he asks for: He may not want to get it.
"Although Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have social-welfare states, they outrank the United States on a variety of other economic-freedom indices calculated by the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute; they have, for example, less business regulation, lower corporate tax rates, and more trade freedom," Emily Ekins writes in the May 23, 2016 issue of National Review. "Their liberal markets are what enable them to accommodate massive social-welfare spending."
"If Sanders says that America should be more like Sweden, he should acknowledge what it takes to be more like Sweden: freer markets, not more government control." Ekins is a research fellow and the director of polling at the Cato Institute.
Indeed, Sen. Sanders may be on a collision course with his youthful acolytes. Ekins notes that one poll, "Reason-Rupe has found that, the label 'socialism' aside, Millennials prefer, by a ratio of two to one, a 'free market-economy' over a 'government-managed economy.'"
This last tidbit should not surprise the truly observant: When was the last time you saw a Millennial riding in a cab as opposed to Uber?
translation: The Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute endorse 60+% marginal tax rates.
Be more like Sweden: tax the hell out of productive citizens; invite millions of non-productive morons in with the intelligence of retarded chimpanzees; allow them to rape your citizens.
The only way to make socialists is to mislead people.
And remember “the goal of Socialism is Communism” Vladimir Lenin.
I look forward to the US having Scandinavian-style education vouchers and privatized Social Security.
How could you take this away from either the article itself or anything Heritage or Cato produce or stand for?
Sweden also has school choice...
“Reason-Rupe has found that, the label ‘socialism’ aside, Millennials prefer, by a ratio of two to one, a ‘free market-economy’ over a ‘government-managed economy.’”
Milennials have no sense of history. The reason when they are polled that they prefer a free market economy is they think it means they get free stuff.
often to a greater degree than we do
A.K.A. back when they had the lowest rape numbers on the planet.
Now, not so much... wonder what changed...
Because the article is a backhanded endorsement of how Scandinavian countries do things.
National Review? How do they come up with Sweden having a free markets when the gubmint there takes half your income?
It’s not that America’s democrats, socialists and communists don’t know anything about national finance and economies.
It’s that everything they know is wrong.
lutefisk, blonde cheerleaders, Ikea and koenigsegg.
Ok so three of the four are worth exporting.
They can keep the lutefisk and drug users.
Bernie was born in racially diverse New York. After he graduated from the University of Chicago, he moved to the whitest city in the whitest state in the US.
Now he points to the whitest countries on the whitest continent in the world as emblematic of the society he most cherishes.
What is Bernie actually saying?
What is it here?
What about the socialism in Venezuela? It seems to be a disaster.
This one’s right up ol’ Bern’s alley:
“Legalize incest and necrophilia, says Swedish Liberal Party’s youth wing”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3403798/posts
But, But, they’re so WHITE!
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