Quote from: compro01 on August 05, 2011, 07:02:39 PM

Quote from: evoorhees on August 05, 2011, 05:40:51 PM

Quote from: compro01 on August 05, 2011, 05:32:08 PM

i find it amusing that socialist canada ranks higher than the US.

Essentially, that list is an inverse ranking of socialism. So, it is not quite correct to say that "socialist Canada is higher than the US," but instead that the US is demonstrably more socialist even than Canada.

Pretty sad =(

that depends on whether you use a screwy definition of "socialism". socialism can be highly beneficial to economic freedom.

for example, single-payer healthcare improves job mobility, which i would consider a key aspect of economic freedom, rather than being tied to a company due to the need for health insurance.

I gree with your point. Always puzzles me how people that oppose healthcare reform in the US proclaim to be all about economic freedom but are happy to see American businesses shaken-down and weighed down by insurance companies and big pharma. They don't mind the health insurance insdustry making a giant claim on peoples wealth, which they then spend not in the real economy but in the same byzantine instruments that everyone then has to run around and server (through bail-outs and the crowding out of real enterprise).