- 13 Jun 2016 17:36
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Cuban healthcare.
Cuban food.
And I'm sorry, but alcoholism is kind of a consequence of state socialism. That the USSR stamped it out is a crime against humanity -- I for one couldn't bear to be a Soviet citizen if I couldn't get shitfaced and forget that I was.
Denmark is not an equal culture to the United States. They're more Germanic, more intelligent, and more industrious. Switzerland is more of an apples to apples comparison to Scandinavia, and they're overall more prosperous.
The US is demographically closer to Brazil than Scandinavia. The only demographically somewhat similar country to us in Europe is France, which has vastly worse unemployment problems and a substantially lower average income.
Between US states, there's a positive correlation between bureaucratic intrusiveness and both inequality and poverty.
https://mises.org/library/vote-your-fee ... and-richer
Even this article doesn't do the correlation justice, because it uses standard poverty measures. Per the supplemental poverty measure (which accounts for cost of living), big, bureaucratic blue states like have truly staggering poverty rates. Your own state is the poorest in the country by a long mile.
Cuban food.
And I'm sorry, but alcoholism is kind of a consequence of state socialism. That the USSR stamped it out is a crime against humanity -- I for one couldn't bear to be a Soviet citizen if I couldn't get shitfaced and forget that I was.
Denmark is not an equal culture to the United States. They're more Germanic, more intelligent, and more industrious. Switzerland is more of an apples to apples comparison to Scandinavia, and they're overall more prosperous.
The US is demographically closer to Brazil than Scandinavia. The only demographically somewhat similar country to us in Europe is France, which has vastly worse unemployment problems and a substantially lower average income.
Between US states, there's a positive correlation between bureaucratic intrusiveness and both inequality and poverty.
https://mises.org/library/vote-your-fee ... and-richer
Even this article doesn't do the correlation justice, because it uses standard poverty measures. Per the supplemental poverty measure (which accounts for cost of living), big, bureaucratic blue states like have truly staggering poverty rates. Your own state is the poorest in the country by a long mile.
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -F.A. Hayek