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Time to Follow Sweden’s Lead on Fiscal Policy

Bobgood1 Wrote: Apr 16, 2012 10:09 PM

We need to take stock of what Sweden has accomplished. We should Remember what happened to SOCIALIST RUSSIA. It hasn't been very long ago. The current leaders are pointing us down the same road. It is hard for me to understand this continual push towards Socialism. Any contry that it has been tried in, has failed. Is it some Dream "UTOPIA," that socialist set on achieving ?

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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...