Quote from: vaultman on Today at 08:28:30 PM

I believe that it is wrong to distribute money for free to the entire population of the country. For residents of the United States, $ 1000 will not give much benefit, and for the economy, $ 1.9 trillion is a very high cost indicator. This money could be directed to better goals, which would lead to any positive consequences.

I think Americans in general have a tendency to hate any policies that could be labelled socialist such as this but like I said in the above post, if you look at the Scandinavian countries that follow the Nordic model of high taxes to subsidize world class social welfare programs, it's actually resulted in their citizens enjoying a fantastic standard of living...

Social Welfare spending as % of GDP:

Finland: 30.8%
Denmark: 27.8%
Sweden: 27.1%
Norway: 25.1%
UK: 21.5%
USA: 19.3%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_welfare_spending

Quality of life index:

Denmark: 1st
Finland: 3rd
Sweden: 10th
Norway: 11th
USA: 13th
UK: 18th

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp

World happiness report:

Finland: 1st
Denmark: 2nd
Norway: 3rd
Sweden: 7th
UK: 15th
USA: 19th

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

GDP per capita:

Norway: 6th
USA: 10th
Sweden: 15th
Denmark: 19th
Finland: 24th
UK: 26th

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

Poverty:

Norway: 0.2%
Finland: 0.2%
Denmark: 0.5%
UK: 0.7%
Sweden: 1%
USA: 2%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentage_of_population_living_in_poverty

Income inequality:

Finland: 3.9
Denmark: 4.0
Norway: 4.1
Sweden: 4.6
UK: 5.4
USA: 9.4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality

Life expectancy:

Sweden: 82.7
Norway: 82.4
Finland: 81.7
UK: 81.2
Denmark: 80.8
USA: 78.9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

World education rankings:

Finland: 3rd
Norway: 12th
USA: 17th
Sweden: 19th
Denmark: 24th
UK: 25th

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading

World ranking of countries by IQ:

Norway: 100
UK: 100
Finland: 99
Sweden: 99
Denmark: 98
USA: 98

https://iq-research.info/en/page/average-iq-by-country

Crime rate:

Finland: 22.75
Denmark: 24.72
Norway: 33.51
UK: 43.64
USA: 46.73
Sweden: 47.21

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp

World Health organisation ranking of health systems:

Norway: 11th
UK: 18th
Sweden: 23rd
Finland: 31st
Denmark: 34th
USA: 37th (Privatised healthcare system)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_ranking_of_health_systems_in_2000

Unemployment rate:

USA: 3.5
UK: 3.8
Norway: 4.0
Denmark: 4.8
Sweden: 6.3
Finland: 7.2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemployment_rate

Homicide rate per 100,000:

Norway: 0.5
Sweden: 1.15
Denmark: 1.2
UK: 1.2
USA: 5.3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Incarceration rate per 100,000:

Finland: 51
Sweden: 59
Denmark: 63
Norway: 63
UK: 140
USA: 655

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

Infant mortality rates per 1000:

Finland: 2.3
Norway: 2.6
Sweden: 2.9
UK: 4.3
Denmark: 4.4
United States: 6.5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate