"The HUI economists attributed the much bigger difference in consumption and sales mainly to the fact that U.S. households pay themselves for education
and health care, services which are tax-financed and come for free or at low user charges in Sweden."

How well you are travelling is not only measured in Dollars.

Perhaps the Swedes sleep better at night, and I didn't notice any S11 attacks on Gothenburg.

As seen from the outside, this frantic obsession with how many dollars you earn, and how much you consume is probably at the root of America's problems. If a man is measured by what he consumes, rather than what he contributes, is he not then a parasite?

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