Sanders Misleads Students on Scandinavian Socialism

Accuracy in Academia ^ | May 17, 2016 | Malcolm A. Kline

[areukiddingme1]

A) I hate Scandanavian Socialists

B) Dude....I love burnout bernie and Scandinavian Socialists...

[sharkhawk]

PJ O'rourke had a quote from Milton Friedman in one of his books.

A Scandinavian economist once stated to Milton Friedman: "In Scandinavia we have no poverty." Milton Friedman replied, "That's interesting, because in America among Scandinavians, we have no poverty either."

[LostPassword]

Those wishing for socialism need to be shown Venezuela. Just because they imagine that the policies they are arguing for work in one location doesn’t mean that socialism works. What do they want? And how does it look like Venezuela and Scandinavia? Much of what they want is Venezuela.

Then again, maybe they like Venezuela. Income inequality is very low (or at least meaningless) when neither the rich or poor can’t get an aspirin or toilet paper.

[Boogieman]

“Their liberal markets are what enable them to accommodate massive social-welfare spending.”

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Well, don’t forget petrowealth. Countries that are sitting on large petroleum and natural gas reserves can afford to be wasteful with their spending. Also, even with those factors taken into account, the taxes are so sky-high in Scandinavia that there is a booming black market economy of “off the books” labor, because that’s the only way most people can escape the crushing taxes and actually save a little money to improve their station.

[i_robot73]

Bernie, and the Left, only wish to install the Socialist things piece-meal, from many sources, for a totality of Socialism.

For instance, they will never lower taxes/regs, voter ID, school choice, illegals, etc.

But they will take 1-2 times from X, 3-4 from Y, 2 from Z...and join them all for the U.S.

[Mollypitcher1]

Good grief! Just compare the freeloaders we have to put up with here. The entire Scandinavia, ie Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland,Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands total a population of 25,251,000.That’s 2 million less than the state of Texas. Sweden, Norway, and Denmark together total about the same figures as Florida.

[DHerion]

Norway funds their social welfare state by being one of the largest oil exporters in the world and being the 14th ranked arms exporter. Sweden affords their by being the 10th ranked arms exporter. I wonder how those progressives feel about their wonder countries funding their socialist policies by exporting dirty oil and guns?