This is overwhelming. How can Canada, Australia, Denmark, Ireland, Switzerland and New Zealand rank higher than the US in the world economic freedom index?? I believe AE would think of these countries as socialists, unproductive, unfree with big governments. What then do you think is wrong with th…

That’s because the US is fascist.

What’s tough about the Swiss being freer than Americans? I believe its evident to anyone who’s been to Switzerland.

They are actually very capitalist countries with very meticulous property rights, and a lot less statism in many areas than the US. The US is not that free market any more, it has an out of control expropriatory elite and intervention that even the Euros would think of as crazy. And it’s a high infl…

The exact definition and taxonomy of the term fascism is debatable even among those who study the subject exhaustively. I believe national socialism to be a subset of fascist ideology. Some could argue just the opposite. One thing for sure, there does exist more than a few common threads between the…

I’m not entirely clear on how any of these countries but Denmark (which I know about solely through second hand anecdotes) could possibly be considered socialist in a way that would exclude the US.

If this is the AEI’s economic freedom index, it rates several factors related to the “freedom” of an economy, such as how easy it is to open a business, protection of property rights, etc. The USA has been falling down the list recently, and for good reason… consider how the Federal Government has b…

I’ve always thought that socialism is a broad concept that encompasses both Fascism and Communism. Fascism is nation state socialism and communism is international socialism. They can both be imperialist easily. Fascism allows corporations to go out and seek “good deals” with the full force of the m…

I consider some of them actually more capitalist than the US. Just because they have more social programs or bigger as a % of GDP does not make them “socialist”. Maybe their “Social” emblem works somehow.

I agree with you. Corporatism is the way to understand America’s politics & economics.

6 developed socialist countries rank higher than US in Economic freedom index

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cobracarg June 22, 2011, 2:11pm 3

this thread might be useful to you. At least, if best, it explains why Denmark is up there

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6 developed socialist countries rank higher than US in Economic freedom index

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