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Bob Schieffer: Let me just start out by asking you, what is a socialist
these days? I mean, I remember when a socialist was somebody who wanted
to nationalize the railroads and things like that.
Bernie Sanders: When we talk about Democratic socialism, I think it’s
important to realize that there are countries around the world like
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, who’ve had social democratic
governments on and off for many, many years. And we can learn a whole
lot from some of those countries.
—Face the Nation interview, May 10, 2015
Sweden is a funny country to call socialist. In France or Austria the
government owns a much larger share of industry, and I would expect that
in a socialist country personal income taxes would be low and company
taxes high, whereas in Sweden it is the opposite. It has the world’s
highest personal income taxes and it’s a tax haven for companies!
–A statement made in 1976 by Rune Hagelund, a member of the board of the
Swedish Employers’ Federation (SAF), a former professor of economics,
and president and chairman of the board of two of Sweden’s major
corporations.
full: http://louisproyect.org/2015/05/24/the-swedish-model-part-1/
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