It’s a common refrain in American progressive circles: If Europe can have universal health care, pre-K, and all the other welfare state goodies, why can’t America? We could if we just taxed the millionaires and billionaires, the argument goes.
Speaking as a Swedish citizen, I can tell you it is not quite that simple.
John Gustavsson is a Swedish conservative writer with a Ph.D. in economics, with past experience as a policy adviser and researcher in the European Parliament.
