[TheRealThing]

^^:thatsfunn

This republic has withstood a lot of threats in it's short life. Despite what ol Bern would tell us and for what you seem to advocate, one will not find free healthcare, free college, free cell phones, or free love for that matter, enumerated among the 'unalienable rights' spoken of by the founders. Giveaways are this nation's kryptonite, the foundation busting threat from which there is evidently no escape. No society can give itself money, or as Benjamin Franklin said--- "When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic."


REASON ----Veronique de Rugy
ARTICLE EXCERPT [italics mine]
"We're to believe (according to Bernie Sanders) that Nordic government programs—such as free college, free graduate school, and nearly free health care, all paid for with higher consumption taxes—don't involve trade-offs in the form of lower wages as they do everywhere else.

Don't believe it, says Nima Sanandaji, a researcher who grew up in Sweden. His new book, 'Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism" is a balanced and comprehensive analysis of Nordic public policies, including their home runs and failures. In particular, it nicely lays out the human and social cost of the welfare state.

Welfare policies have the same effects in Nordic countries as they do in other countries. As Nordic people have been asked to pay higher and higher taxes in exchange for the welfare payouts, their incentives to work less and capture government or mandatary company handouts have evolved to the point of "undermining the countries' economic foundations."