[quote=Milton Bradley;490547]
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The fact is, Sweden gave up it's individual liberties for government intervention, and it did not improve their standard of living. In fact, they appear to have it worse now, plus they gave up the right to choose. It's a double negative.
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Three problems here;
1) Not accurate. The Swedes have, in some ways, more individual liberty than Americans.Your perception of life in Sweden is, apparently, highly unrealistic. You seem to see it as a Marxist totalitarian state.
2) This isn't about government intervention improving the SOL. The subject of this thread is government intervention in production to protect health and safety. You're supposed to explain why that is anti-democratic and unconstitutional. Saying it doesn't improve the SOL does not answer that question.
3) You haven't even established that the SOL did not improve, anyway.
Your data was from a time of recession in Sweden.
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Compared to Mississippi, which, even with our government driving our currency into the ground, have managed to provide a better standard of living, and more liberties to it;s constituents.
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Again, you rely on outdated data from when Sweden was in a recession.
The blogger used late 90s data for that very reason-to cook the results in favor of his argument. Highly dishonest.
Without complete, up-to-date data, the claim fails.
The vague reference to "more liberties" doesn't mean anything, either. What liberties are you claiming Sweden lacks as compared to Mississippi?