Quote of the Day: “Sanders says he wants to make the United States more like Finland, Sweden, and Denmark … ”

 

“[Bernie] Sanders says he wants to make the United States
more like Finland, Sweden, and Denmark. And those countries
do indeed rank higher than the United States in the Cato
Institute’s Human Freedom Index … . But Sanders wants
to emulate those countries in the ways they are less free
than the United States … not in the ways they are more free …”
~ Michael Cannon, from his post ‘A Libertarian Argument for Bernie Sanders?’

 

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