SPEECH INSTEAD OF DYING IN A
CESSPOOL OF GOVERNMENT BY THE
GOVERNMENT AND FOR THE
GOVERNMENT.
BERNIE AND HIS SCCOLITES OFTEN
POINT TO SWEDEN.
A NEW DOCUMENTARY EXAMINES JUST
WAS IN TURMOIL AND REACHED A
BREAKING POINT.
SWEDEN DECISIVELY CHANGED
COURSE.
REFORMS WERE VOTED IN.
AND EDUCATION WERE REFORMED AND
THE MYTH.
SO WHAT LESSONS CAN AMERICAN
LEARN FROM SWEDEN.
IF BERNIE SANDERS AND ALEXANDRIA
OCASIO-CORTEZ WERE REALLY GOING
TO IMPLEMENT SWEDISH-STYLE
REFORMS TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY
BETTER, WHAT WOULD THEY LOOK
LIKE?
>> I THINK THEY WOULD BE QUITE
SURPRISED.
DEREGULATE MORE PRODUCT MARKETS
AND REFORM PENSION SYSTEM AND
LOW CORPORATE TAX, NO TAXES ON
PROPERTY, WEALTH AND INHERITANCE
AND A NATIONAL SCHOOL VOUCHER
SYSTEM SO PRIVATE SCHOOLS GOT
THE REALITY OF SWEDEN'S FREE
MARKET REFORMS.
AS YOU POINT OUT, IN THE 50s
TAXES WERE LOW AND SWEDEN WAS
RICH.
IN THE 70s AND 80s, THAT'S
IS BERNIE SANDERS NUK THAT TIME
WARP?
>> HIS IMAGE OF SWEDEN IS STUCK
IN 1975.
WE DOUBLED PUBLIC SPEND AND
BUT THAT'S WHEN WE SAW SERIOUS
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.
THAT'S THE ERA SOCIALISTS IN
SWEDEN TRIED TO GET AWAY FROM.
WHAT WE DID IN THE 70s AND
80s WAS ABSURD, UNSUSTAINABLE
AND THE TAX SYSTEM WAS PERVERSE.
KENNEDY: THAT PERCEPTION HAS
REALLY STUCK AND PEOPLE TALK
ABOUT SWEDEN WITHOUT REALLY KNOW
ANY OF THE FACTS OR WHERE THE
COUNTRY IS NOW, OR THAT WE HAVE
DIFFERENT ECONOMIES AND
CULTURES.
DON'T HAVE TO CONTEND WITH.
REAL SOCIALISM IS VASTLY
DIFFERENT THAN PEOPLE WHO WANTS
FORGIVENESS ON THEIR STUDENT
LOAN DEBT.
>> SOCIALISM IS HAVING THE
GOVERNMENT OWNING THE MEANS OF
PRODUCTION.
SWEDEN NEVER DID THAT NOT EVEN
VENEZUELA AND CUBA.
EATING ZOO ANIMALS BECAUSE THERE
IS NO FOOD.
SWEDEN -- THE SOCIALISTS IN
SPEEDEN TRIED ON THE CONSUMPTION
SIDE.
MARKET AND TRADE ENVIRONMENT.
SO THEY GAVE THEM PRIVILEGES AND
LOWER TAXES BECAUSE THEY KNEW
HUGH IMPORTANT THEY WERE FOR THE
ECONOMY.
THINGS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN
THEY ARE STILL HAVE MUCH
CENTRALLY RUN AND THERE IS NOT
ENOUGH COMPETITION WHICH IS WHY
THEY REMAIN UNNATURALLY HIGH AND