Denmark is certainly an interesting case. Two things we liked were public transportation and dental care for kids. All schools in the basement or somewhere next to the school had dental facilities for all kids in the school based on your yearly appointments. It was mass service like a conveyor belt but efficient and effective. Healthcare was universal a real plus but never tested the system for serious stuff. That said will Americans be willing to pay 40 plus % average taxes with marginal rates 70%? And 5 million very homogeneous population may have some bearing on policy agenda.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Chair & Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies Australia India Institute and School of Social & Political Sciences University of Melbourne, 147-149 Barry Street, Carlton VIC 3053, AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 3 9035 6161 Visit the Australia India Institute Website http://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/ New: After-Development Dynamics (on South Korea) http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198729433.do Forthcoming Book: http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9780415564953/ New Book Series (Dynamics of Asian Development) http://www.springer.com/series/13342 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from my iPad > On Oct 23, 2015, at 10:06, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not sure that I agree with the critique though, as a practical matter, > even though I think the dialogue is intrinsically very positive, and it's a > wonderful thing for people like Foner to take advantage of any opportunity to > talk about US radical history and insist that others do so. > > I think talking about Denmark might actually be more relevant to the matter > at hand than what happened in the US in the 1890s. > > It's more relevant, arguably, to talking about health care for all. It's more > relevant, arguably, to talking about family and medical leave. > > Western Europe made a choice after World War II to have capitalism without > having poverty. The United States made a different choice. We can revisit > that choice. The fact that Western Europe made that choice and lived to tell > the tale is a key fact that we should compel people in the US to grapple > with. > > > > > > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > (202) 448-2898 x1 > >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Robert Naiman >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> I love this. I hope it inspires a thousand more pieces like it. >> >> >> >> Robert Naiman >> Policy Director >> Just Foreign Policy >> www.justforeignpolicy.org >> [email protected] >> (202) 448-2898 x1 >> >>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]> wrote: >>> http://www.thenation.com/article/how-bernie-sanders-should-talk-about-democratic-socialism/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pen-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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