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The Nordic super nanny state is something of a myth. All three have very open markets and size of government that is 50% of GDP or less (US is 42%). http://ww
by newbie12 14y ago
The Nordic super nanny state is something of a myth. All three have very open markets and size of government that is 50% of GDP or less (US is 42%).
http://www.heritage.org/index/country/sweden http://www.heritage.org/index/country/sweden
- Al-Khwarizmi 14y agoThese GDP data appear frequently in this kind of discussions, but percent of GDP is a meaningless metric in practice. I have been to Sweden and to the US often and it's pretty obvious in day-to-day life that the state is much more involved in people's lives (for good and/or bad, I'm not discussing ideology) in the former than in the latter.