oil money

>>230608

Homogeneous populations(recent influx of sandniggers notwithstanding) can handle socialism better. The key thing to realize is, the USA could never prosper under their system. We'd fall to pieces.

The glorious aryan race can make anything work. No exceptions.

No country in Europe is "socialist." Even the Scandanavian countries are very libertarian.

see

http://www.european-enterprise.org/publications/sweden-the-free-market-powerhouse

>>230632

They're still taxed at like 50%.

>>230614
That's only Norway, really.

>>230646
There's a hell of a lot more to economic freedom than the personal top marginal tax rate... and the vast majority of taxes in the US are hidden.

>>230632
seems legit

>Sweden is one of the most prosperous countries in the world. A century and a half ago, however, living standards in Sweden were comparable to those of Sierra Leone today. A series of early free-market reforms – not least in trade, banking and business regulation – made Sweden one of the fastest growing economies of the world for decades. The success was reversed in the 1970s following a massive expansion in government intervention. But during the last two decades, Sweden has once more liberalized, and is again one of Europe’s success stories.

inb4 liberalized = liberals

>>230632
What the OP means is that they have more socialist public programs, like free college education and health care, than we do.

U.S. (and, to lesser extent, UK) provides the military protection for the WORLD. The U.S. spends a larger portion of its GDP on defense than the next few countries combined. Thanks to us, the governments of Europe can spend their money on providing cradle to grave nanny state care for their citizens.

Also:

>>230632
>>230615

>>230691

how strange that the more that govt interferes, the worse off everyone is. If only all of history could teach us this. Oh wait...

>>230632
You are right that such welfare states are not socialist, but they are even further from being libertarian

>>230695

Which doesn't invalidate the fact that other countries in no need of great military spending haven't achieved the same results.

>>230717
Not really.. and further from what exactly?

read
>>230632

>>230717

Yet unlike what libertarians argue, they work.

>>230725
In no need?

Want to know why?

No niggers.

Look at any economic freedom rankings and you'll see that despite the large government programs the scandinavian countries are still some of the most economically free in the world.

Here's one
http://www.heritage.org/index/Ranking.aspx

For instance Business freedom is 91.3 in the US but 97.9 in Denmark and 95.5 in Sweden

>>230730
Fact fail.

see
>>230632

>>230695

You mean, it provides military conflicts for the world.

define success

>>230752
Denmark has this curiosity applied
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity

Easy to hire and easy to fire people. Big unemployment benefits with obligations:

Unemployment 2.8%

>>230756

Libertarianism = small government
Extensive welfare programs, unemployment benefits and nationalized health care = small government?

The Scandinavian countries have much greater social freedoms than the US let's not forget that that and not just economic freedom are important parts of libertarianism.

Superior Nordic genes. The only thing holding them back is their jewish Trotskyist bullshit.

>>230773
Exactly, people are thinking to linearly. Economic freedom is not just hurr durr lowest domestic, personal, superficial, marginal income tax rate hurr.

Denmark has the third most libertarian economy in the world according to the HF and Wall Street Journal index:

http://www.heritage.org/index/Country/Denmark