Comment by fifilura
7 days ago
> The obvious solution is not to hurt the economy as a whole, but rather for the government to lower the cost of high-quality education, build out social systems, and invest into onshoring select strategic industries by raising taxes at the high end.
Like... Scandinavia?
Yes.
Scandinavia is the gold standard for liberals.
Unless you are talking about immigration, and then no one ever heard of them.
Scandinavia has its problems too, but they're doing a lot better than we are in many measures that aren't "number of billionaires getting richer while the rest of the population gets poorer every year."
People there are happier, healthier, and better educated than they are here.
Sweden actually has a higher rate of billionaires than USA (and Norway).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...
Not that that has to be a good thing though...
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As an example, yes.
Scandinavia is using oil and gas reserves as a captive tax base. It doesn't really generalize to markets where capital is mobile.
That is only Norway. Maybe a little bit of Denmark, but Denmark is not considered an oil economy.
And I don't know what you mean with "captive tax base" but Norway just piles up the wealth they are too afraid to use it since it will increase the inflation.
Norway is the one that actually makes it work. Their GDP per capita is slightly higher than the US and more than $30,000 higher than the other Scandinavian countries.
"Captive tax base" means the industry can't move to another country as a result of high taxes. You can move factory jobs to China by moving the factory. You can't move oil and gas extraction jobs to China by moving the oil field.
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That's just Norway.