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   Dreidel

   October 7, 2015

   “What this Carson fellow said about gunshot victims demonstrates that he’s a total sociopath.”

   When it comes to President, I’ll take a sociopath over a socialist any day.

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      Clarissa

      October 7, 2015

      Bernie is not a real socialist. He supports capitalism in the Scandinavian tradition. I think that’s not a good idea but it shouldn’t even be compared with actual socialism.

      Socialism is governmental ownership over all means of production. There is nothing even remotely similar in the Sweden that Bernie idolizes.

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         Dreidel

         October 7, 2015

         It’s true that the social democracies in Western Europe don’t practice the “real” socialism that was more-or-less the norm in Warsaw Pact countries under the control of the USSR. But there are many reasons why even “socialism light” (if that’s how you night describe the system in Scandinavia) won’t work in a country like the U.S.

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            Z

            October 7, 2015

            Such as?

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               Dreidel

               October 7, 2015

               Such as the fact that America has a vastly larger population than any Scandinavian country, and much lower effective tax rates. Turning the U.S. into a giant welfare state would cost $$$$$$$$$$.

               I for one have NO inclination to let a Robin Hood government take a dime more from me in tax loot than it already gets (which is too much!). I paid cash for for my medical school education and for my Cadillac, and the government has no right to take what I’ve earned over my lifetime and throw it to the four winds — not now, and not after I die.

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