Fareed Zakaria Has No Idea How the Nordic Model Works
Just about everything Fareed Zakaria says about Bernie Sanders, the Nordics, and social democracy is incorrect. He’s faked his way through another column on something he knows nothing about.
Fareed Zakaria at the Mackinac Policy conference, May 29, 2012.Kollár Zsanett / Wikimedia
The serial plagiarist Fareed Zakaria has faked his way through another column about something he knows nothing about. In this one, Zakaria slaps together a hodgepodge of false and misleading claims to insist that the Nordic countries are nothing like what socialists and social democrats in the United States say they are. As with most people who write in this genre, Zakaria is incorrect and completely out of his depth.
Wealth and Inheritance
Zakaria writes:
Inheritance taxes in Sweden and Norway are zero, and in Denmark 15 percent. The United States, by contrast, has the fourth-highest estate taxes in the industrialized world at 40 percent.
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