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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by jahaja on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @10:01AM (#24210417)
> Like I said, the Scandinavian countries attained the highest standard of living ranking in the 1960s, when they were still very free market oriented and had moderate tax rates, and had just had a century of the best economic growth rates in the world, again with free market economic policies.

As a Scandinavian that is an absolutely ridiculous claim. The free market period is now, with its quickly widening inequality, and the more socialistic period was during the period you claim to be "very free market" oriented.

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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by CryptoPunk on Thursday August 20, 2020 @08:41AM (#24222603)
The evidence contradicts your belief. Scandinavian countries have much higher levels of government spending, as a percentage of GDP, today, than any time before 1965. The majority of that government spending is on social welfare programs.
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