And in response:
http://robertreich.org/post/4344201496
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/10/why-we-need-a-global-wealth-tax-piketty.html
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/taxing-the-rich/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eMs8rzBesw
I will find four (because I'm lazy, not because there are not many, many more) for each fringe economist you provide.
[–] brother_tempus ago
As i said .. such socilaist policie are old and failed
All one has to look at is Cuba, Venezuela, and Greece and Italy and Portugal .. even France - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-08/au-revoir-to-france-s-welfare-model-as-socialists-cut-spending
And when we look at the Scandinavian counties that are doing a lot better than Europe, we see it is less government, less taxes and more freedom that works
https://mises.org/library/how-modern-sweden-profits-success-its-free-market-history
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21571136-politicians-both-right-and-left-could-learn-nordic-countries-next-supermodel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG51uCrYxVM
[–] Kurplow [S] ago
Regarding Sweden: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Tax-Revenues-As-GDP-Percentage-%2875-05%29.JPG
Tell me again about how small the government is in Sweden, one of your success stories.
You can repeat the tired trope that socialism is a failed system, but you do so at the cost of your comporting with reality.