repeating what UKBrassow wrote:
"It has never worked, ever. And the countries you call socialist are actually free market capitalist countries with large welfare programs only accomplished bc of small homogeneous populations with outsourced militaries. Socialism denies liberty, goals, aspiration and always leads to an authoritarian or communism bc its need to control ppl...and always starts with an idea of helping ppl."
Those policies work because the combined population of Denmark, Sweden and Finland is roughly the same as the population of Florida. They spend about 3.8 billion of their GDP on Military, while we spend about 750 billion. THE POLICIES AREN"T SCALABLE, especially when we are letting hundreds of thousands more potential recipients of said welfare programs pour across our border each year. Please enlighten us all as to how this country can accomplish those goals in an affordable manner that doesn't tax the living daylights out of the middle class? Please explain how putting that burden on the wealthy and big corporations is sustainable? Please explain what incentives those individuals and corporations have to keep propping up the people who refuse to work, have accountability, or who are here illegally. Please explain what the incentives will be that keep those individuals and corporations from moving their operations, jobs and money overseas.