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Time to Follow Sweden’s Lead on Fiscal Policy

anonymous Wrote: Apr 16, 2012 10:04 AM

Their is only one way to turn our Country in the right direction, CUT Government, abolish Federal Departments and return them to the State & Local governments......ObamaCare, Education, FED, TSA, Commerce, Transportation, Health, (Home Land Defense, which is the FBI & Coast Guards Job......) CUT Foreign Aid by 75%.......STOP giving Aid to China, South Korea, Russia, and ALL Muslim Countries........Get out of the United Nations, close and sell the buildings..............

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Time to Follow Sweden’s Lead on Fiscal Policy

Sweden has a very large and expensive welfare state, but it’s actually becoming a bit of a role model for economic reform. I’ve already commented on the country’s impressive school choice system and noted that the Swedes have partially privatized their Social Security system.

I even wrote a Cato study looking at the good and bad features of economic policy in the Nordic nations, and cited a Swedish parliamentarian who explained that his nation became rich because of small government and free markets and how he is hopeful his country is returning to its libertarian...