The poll reveals that university students are confused about socialism and what this means

The last elementary victory in New York by Democrat Zahran Mamdani, a socialist who has been self -declared, raises the question that was collapsing for years: Is America ready for socialism?

The survey at the country level proposes to 2067 university and university students across the United States that the answer begins with another question: What constitutes socialism? Only 34 % of students determine socialism as state ownership, central planning, and classic definition. Nearly half of them define it as an active government and redistribute it, and many admit that they are not sure. This ambiguity is how people talk about socialism and why do you look well with young voters.

The politicians helped break the lines by referring to places like northern countries such as Sweden as models of “Democratic Socialism,” The claim that they are successful models of what it might appear in the United States, but Sweden is not a socialist economy. Policies approved by Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic Representative in New York. Alexandria Okasio Cortez, Mamdani and others – such as the implementation of a Wealth tax, Increase inheritance taxes, corporate taxes and income taxes to pay the price of a large luxury country – not Sweden’s policies. It is a market -based system with high taxes that funds a generous luxury country.

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While the tax burden of individuals is relatively high in Sweden, the Swedish government indicates it Welfare system It is based on the principle that everyone pays, not just the rich. The highest marginal income tax rate is higher in Sweden than in the United States, but these higher taxes are not only paid by the rich in Sweden. The highest rate applies to everyone who hardly earns the national average in Sweden, compared to the United States, where the highest rate is paid by those who get 800 % of the national average.

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Moreover, Sweden The consumption tax is 25 % on goods and services, compared to local and local sales taxes in the United States by 7.7 %. Sweden also does not have a wealth tax, no inheritance tax and low -company tax rate compared to the United States

Sweden learned the difficult way what happens when it moved towards the type of policies he called for “Democrats.” Johann Norberg and others also highlighted, for nearly 100 years. The country had a small government and an open economy until the country tried with it. Socialism In the seventies and eighties. During that time, they sought the size of the government, increased income taxes, paying wealth tax and inheritance tax. The iconic companies such as IKEA left the country, the growth stopped and the country witnessed a financial crisis that forced the main reforms in the early nineties. Today, Sweden is one of the most economical free countries in the world.

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So, what do American young people want? When we asked students if they support comprehensive health care and free higher education, 78 % said yes if it was funded by wealth tax at the highest 1 %. He said seventy -one percent yes, if funded by high income Taxes On the top of 10 %. When asked if they support these things if it was funded by the global consumption tax, support decreased in half. When funded by the high income tax on most people, only 38 % was in favor. It is clear that university students (and it is assumed that the other Americans who support these things) are much more in favor of a greater luxury state if another person introduces the bill.

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History and economics show that the systems based on the wider government are constantly hitting the wall. The late British Prime Minister Margaret Tischer said, “The problem with socialism is that you have finally run out of the money of others.”

Before America decides that it is ready for socialism, it is clear that we need to learn about what it really means and what it really costs. Only then we can discuss whether socialism is “a commitment to dignity”, as Mamdani says, or whether it is a prescription for ruin.

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