Did I Miss the Big Bernie Sanders Announcement?
August 13, 2020
For the past several decades Bernie Sanders has been bloviating about how America should be more like Sweden, which he claims (falsely) is a “democratic socialist” country. (Like the U.S., Sweden has a mostly private enterprise economy and a big welfare state but lower business taxes).
I assume this means that Sanders has called for the end of all the “lockdowns” since Sweden — his utopian role model — never adopted many in the first place. It surely never locked down the entire economy. Must have missed it.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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