In a message dated 6/15/02 3:26:20 PM GMT Daylight Time, pholden@sc.rr.com
writes:
> Evidence of how Dynamic Quality is smothered by socialism as
> practiced in many European countries was presented recently in a
> study by the Swedish Research Institute of Trade (HUI). It revealed that
> the typical middle class Swede, even before paying his nation's highest-
> in-the-world taxes, earns less money and enjoys fewer material goods
> that the average African-American in the United States. The study
> reported, "If Sweden were a U.S. state, it would be the poorest
> measured by household gross income before taxes." Sweden is poorer
> that Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi. The tragedy is that before its
> plunge into welfare statism during the 1960's, Sweden had one of the
> world's fastest growing, most prosperous economies, according to
> Swedish historian Johan Norberg.
>
> As usual, Rog's unfailingly lucid explanations of the virtues of free
> enterprise within the context of the MOQ are illustrative and illuminating.
>
> Platt
>
Dear Platt,
The measurement of material wealth does not necessarily produce an indication
of quality.
If i were poor but completely unafraid of unemployment and free to be
creative without 'enjoying fewer material goods' i rather feel i should be
happier than living in fear of losing my job and not being able to afford
health care.
You present extremely low quality arguments against socialism.
You assume wealth, material possessions and high taxation for social care
assuage quality of life.
Note i suggest your arguments are poor, and NOT that you are in some sense
poor.
This is not a personal attack.
All the best,
Squonk.
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