Being half Swedish, I am always interested in what the left thinks of Sweden. This is an excellent article from Tech Central that pokes fun at our friends at the Economic Policy Institute.
A sample:
I will admit that I do find it odd the way that only certain parts of
the, say, Swedish, “miracle” are held up [by EPI] as ideas for us to copy.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if we were urged to adopt some other Swedish
policies? Abolish inheritance tax (Sweden doesn’t have one), have a
pure voucher scheme to pay for the education system (as Sweden does),
do not have a national minimum wage (as Sweden does not) and most
certainly do not run the health system as a national monolith (as
Sweden again does not). But then those policies don’t accord with the
liberal and progressive ideas in the USA so perhaps their being glossed
over is understandable, eh?
