{"id":58539,"date":"2016-04-28T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58539"},"modified":"2016-04-27T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:39:53","slug":"swedish-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58539","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The things Bernie Sanders &#8211; and, to be fair, every single one of his American supporters &#8211; miss about Scandinavian socialism\u00a0<em>today<\/em> (as opposed to the seventies-era variety that Sanders seems to think still applies), <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2016\/04\/18\/bernies-rightamerica-should-be\">via Johan Norberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSanders is right: America would benefit hugely from modeling her economic and social policies after her Scandinavian sisters. But Sanders should be careful what he wishes for. When he asks for \u2018trade policies that work for the working families of our nation and not just the CEOs of large, multi-national corporations,\u2019 Social Democrats in Sweden would take this to mean trade liberalization \u2014 which would have the benefit of exposing monopolist fat cats to competition \u2014 not the protectionism that Sanders favors. &#8230; Being more like modern Sweden actually means deregulation, free trade, a national school voucher system, partially privatized pensions, no property tax, no inheritance tax, and much lower corporate taxes. Sorry to burst your bubble, Bernie.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing the American left\u00a0<em>can\u00a0<\/em>build, it&#8217;s shatterproof intellectual bubbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The things Bernie Sanders &#8211; and, to be fair, every single one of his American supporters &#8211; miss about Scandinavian socialism\u00a0today (as opposed to the seventies-era variety that Sanders seems to think still applies), via Johan Norberg: \u201cSanders is right: America would benefit hugely from modeling her economic and social policies after her Scandinavian sisters. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58540,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58539\/revisions\/58540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}