I'm so sick of people trying to compare our economy to the Scandinavian economy and saying look social democracy works there we should do it here!

 

Finland GDP 224 Billion

Iceland GDP 14 Billion

Norway GDP 351 Billion

Sweden GDP 467 Billion

combined that's 1.05 Trillion

 

The united states GDP is 18.5 Trillion last year, to put in perspective last year Texas GDP was 1.1 Trillion more than Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden COMBINED.

 

You can't compare the two economies for that reason alone. 

 

Compare the populations the Scandinavian countries have what roughly a population of 25 million compared to the United States 318 million? 

 

Sure socialism can be relatively successful for a period of time on micro scales but the argument because it works in countries with populations and GDP smaller than States we have over here is a fallacy that doesn't hold water.

 

You want to evaluate socialism on a large scale venture on over to the old USSR. 

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