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Sweden Not a Socialist Success

Somali-Born Journalist Returned To Her Homeland To Document How 'Safe' The Country Is But Terrorists Killed Her

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/07/20/somali-canadian-journalist-traveled-to-somalia-to-prove-how-safe-the-country-is-n2550357

Public Choice Theory: Why Government Often Fails

613 Acts of Media-Approved Violence and Harassment Against Trump Supporters

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/07/05/rap-sheet-acts-of-media-approved-violence-and-harassment-against-trump-supporters/

Lindsey Graham erupts: Kavanaugh hearing an unethical

Why a lot of food gets thrown away

We throw away a lot of food because it is expired. most of that food is still edible, but we cannot sell it because we (the store) and the producer of the food fear liability charges. Not because we would lose the legal case, far from it. Rather we fear public outrage. Think Chipotle and their food poisonings. Very little substantiation or legal charges. Yet, it was a big deal.

Companies FEAR public relationships going bad. Liability is FAR MORE REACHING than any health law or code. So we throw the food away instead of donating it. Why? Honestly we (the specific store) don't care. But the people we donate it to WONT TAKE IT FROM US.

Also, it costs a crap ton to refrigerate or freeze food. Often the food banks in the area won't accept enough food from us because they cannot store it. And it piles up QUICK in out freezers. We either have to not sell any food, because we cannot store anything that the consumer would buy. Or we have to throw the food away.

This problem is a lot more complicated than 'corporate greed' or 'legal liability claims'. This problem rests squarely on the whims of the mass public. Put money into food banks. Don't punish food banks for food poisonings until substantiated. And be willing to buy food that isnt WEEKS from the expiration date. Seriously, consumers DIG through piles of perfectly fine food to purchase the ones in the back that are months from expiring, then come back tomorrow to purchase more again. YOU are the problem. Not law. Not corporations. You.

Regulations vs Gini coefficient

Examining a cross-section of 175 countries, we find that a greater number of steps required to open a business is associated with higher levels of income inequality. Specifically, we find that an increase of one standard deviation in the number of steps necessary to legally open a business is associated with a 1.5 percent increase in the Gini coefficient and a 5.6 percent increase in the share of income going to the top 10.0 percent of earners.

https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/McLaughlin-Regulation-Income-Inequality.pdf

McCain's involvement in IRS scandal

Judicial Watch Obtains IRS Documents Revealing McCain’s Subcommittee Staff Director Urged IRS to Engage in “Financially Ruinous” Targeting.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-irs-documents-revealing-mccains-subcommittee-staff-director-urged-irs-to-engage-in-financially-ruinous-targeting/

90 Percent Of Scandinavia’s Wealth Is Privately Owned

If we’re going to have “good-faith arguments,” a good place to start would be to abandon discredited myths about Scandinavia, begin telling the full truth about “democratic” socialism, and stop pretending that the experiences of 5 million Norwegians who live in one of the freest economies in the world better represent this system than the lives of the 42 million people in Venezuela and my family’s native Cuba that suffer under this ideology daily.

Full article: http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/17/debunking-socialist-myths-90-percent-scandinavias-wealth-privately-owned/

Nordic Countries Are Not Socialist

Private healthcare: the lessons from Sweden

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/dec/18/private–healthcare–lessons–from–sweden

Deregulation, privatisation and marketisation of Nordic comprehensive education: social changes reflected in schooling

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20004508.2018.1429768

Scandinavian Economies and Corporate Tax

http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2005/11/scandinavian_ec.html

Face It,

https://www.dlacalle.com/en/face–it–nordic–countries–are–not–socialist/

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