I periodically make comparisons of the United States and Europe that are not very flattering for our cousins across the Atlantic.
Though this isn’t because of any animus toward Europe. Indeed, I always enjoy my visits. And some of America’s best (albeit eroding) features, such as rule of law and dignity of the individual, are a cultural inheritance from that continent.
Nor am I trying to overstate America’s competitiveness, which actually has eroded considerably during this century.
Instead, I’m simply trying to make the narrow point that too much government is already causing serious problems in Europe, and I’m worried those problems are spreading to the United States.
Yet some of our statist friends, most notably Senator Bernie Sanders, think America should deliberately choose to be more like Europe.
They have this halcyon vision that the average European is more prosperous and they exclaim that this is proof that…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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