by Rand Paul
on corporate taxes, 78
and Cuba, 67–69
and Denmark, 76–78, 88–89
on fairness vs. state ownership of production, 74
on freedom, 4
and Nicaragua, 63–67
opposition to TARP bank bailout, 248
and Paul, 298, 304
on Scandinavia as socialist, 76–78, 86–87
taxes paid by, 47
Sandmann, Nick, 282, 284–85
Sanger, Margaret, 157–58
San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, California, 252
Sasse, Ben, 269
Saudi war on Yemen, 304
Savickas, Daniel, 272–73
Sawant, Kshama, 70, 71
Scalise, Steve, 274, 276
Scandinavia, 93–103
overview, 74–75
capitalist economic system in, 80, 82–83
corporate and income taxes, 71
experiment with socialism, 106
immigration issue, 94, 120–21
leftists' attraction to, 76–78
no minimum wage or consumer price controls, 70
public stock exchanges in, 79
retreat from socialism, 114–15
sales tax/VAT, 97–98, 115, 116
social democratic policies in, 89, 91–94, 105–7, 109, 132
work ethic and culture, 119–22
See also individual Scandinavian countries
Scandinavians living in the United States, 117–23
Scandinavian Unexceptionalism (Sanandaji), 89–90
Schlomach, Byron, 248–49
Schreck, Carl, 207–8
Schultz, Howard, 250
sciencemag.org, 6
scientific assessments of climate change concerns, 258–62
scientific positivism, 229
Seattle, Washington, 70, 71
Sellers, Bakari, 279–80, 284
SenseTime facial recognition software, 295–96
Shaffer, Jack, 269
Shalayev, Andrei, 207
Shaw, George Bernard, 130, 156–57
Sheley, Karen, 294
shooting at charity congressional baseball game practice, 274–76
Shuchman, Daniel, 29–30
Siberia, 165, 209–11, 213–14, 226, 230
Sihanouk, Norodom, 198–99, 202
Sims, Brian, 267–68, 269
smart phones, 37
smirking kid at Indigenous People's March, 284–85
Smollett, Jussie, 274, 276–77
Soave, Robby, 280
socialism
overview, 3
in Cuba, 67–69
in drug distribution, 102
German socialism vs. Russian socialism, 150, 155
Marxist socialism, 142–44, 145–46, 147
in Nicaragua, 63–69
polls showing Americans' support for, 4–5
splitting the difference with capitalism as unacceptable, 304–5
Venezuela's path to, 10–16
See also democratic socialism
socialism's characteristics
overview, 69–75
blaming failure on others, 15, 178, 186
choices disappear, 111–12
collective will vs. individual rights, 144–45, 151–52, 160, 222, 230–31
corruption, 17–22
creation of crises, 251–57
cronyism, 44, 49, 247–50
cure for failed socialism is more socialism, 194–202
eugenics, 156–60
expectation of selfless rulers and citizens, 219–26
government control of resources, 249
Hitler's national socialism, 140–41
kleptocrats, 19, 20
never admit failure, 136–37
no private ownership of corporations, 72
one percenters through party nepotism, 44–45
overspending on social programs, 110–11
price controls, 25–26
spending sovereign wealth instead of investing it, 81–82
surrendering freedom to the state, 144
See also authoritarianism; public ownership of the major means of production
socialized medicine
overview, 101
choosing more capitalism for prescription drugs, 101–2
Medicare for All single-payer system, 102, 115, 251
privatization of national pharmacy in Sweden, 109
in Scandinavia, 85–86
in Sweden, 51–52
in Venezuela, 16
wealthy Danes opting out of, 102–3
social media
doxing individuals on, 267–68
Facebook, 57, 270–71
Jussie Smollett hoax on Instagram, 274
legal immunity discussion, 270
mob vigilantism and media bias, Indigenous Peoples March incident, 279–85
removing competitor access barriers, 269–70
Twitter, 266–70, 279–80
visceral hatred on, 274
Social Security pension program, 99–101
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 161–63, 214
Somoza, 65, 129
Sopo, Giancarlo, 79–80
Soros, George, 221
Soviet Union
agriculture plan failure, 136–37
concentration camps, 213–15
Gorbachev's glasnost, 206–7
joke about sharing misery, 54
propaganda regime, 266
purges of entire families, 205–8, 213–15
recognition that Marxism requires a "New Soviet Man," 225
rehabilitation of victims or surviving relatives, 208
utopia as a workers' paradise, 224
willingness to apply force to maintain Communism, 132
See also Russia; Stalin, Joseph
Sowell, Thomas, 48, 52
Sparta, 222
Stafford, Doug, 300
Stalin, Joseph
overview, 129
crowd applauding enthusiastically anecdote, 161–63
deaths attributable to, 208, 214–15
Haldane's support for, 158
as norm in process of socialist natural selection, 137–38
party purges, 205
punishment for lampooning, 203–5
standard of living, 37, 52, 119–21
Stanley, Timothy, 238, 242
Stiglitz, Joseph, 41, 118–19
Stone, Oliver, 9
Stopes, Marie, 157
Stossel, John, 28
surveillance
in China, 286–89, 295–97
by neighbors/whisperers in Russia, 209, 266
and PreCrime, 294–95
and traffic cameras in the U.S., 291–95
Svart, Maria, 72
Svetov, Mikhail, 302
Sweden, 84–92, 104–9
avoidance of war, 91
capitalist economic system in, 82–83
corporate taxes in, 109
costs related to higher education, 124–25
economic growth, 1800s-1950s, 89–92
elimination of estate tax, 113–14
experiment with socialism, 88, 104–8, 114
Mexico compared to, 30
public stock exchange, 79
socialized medicine in, 51–52
Swedes' quality of life comparable to Swedish-Americans', 30–31
wealth tax, 107–8, 113–14
welfare state develops, 92
Swisher, Kara, 283–84
TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), 247
taxation
Child Tax Credit, 253
Earned Income Tax Credit, 253
estate taxes, 29, 113–14
income taxes in welfare states, 94–95, 97–98
Nordic model, 93, 96–97
of one percenters, 249–50
sales tax/VAT, 97–98, 115, 116
in Scandinavian countries, 71
tax cuts, 41, 112–13
wealth tax, 47, 10
7–8, 110–11, 113–14
See also corporate taxes
Tax Freedom Day, 113
Tea Party movement, 247
Temple of Heaven toilet paper ration, Beijing, 288
theory of equality, 17
Thompson, Derek, 38–39
Tibet, 186
Time magazine, 104
Tlaib, Rashida, 69, 277
Todd, Chuck, 259
Tolstoy, Leo, 223
Torrealba, Lis, 2
totalitarianism
overview, 100, 221–22, 237–38
belief in superiority of rulers, 221
for enforcing socialism, 99, 138, 177, 233
foretold by Plato's Republic, 220
and ideology of historical inevitability, 242
justifying edicts, 243
Mises on, 221
in Nazi Germany, 153
and price controls, 26, 133–35
trade agreements, 77–78
trade manipulation in Nazi Germany, 152, 153
traffic violations and surveillance, 291–94
Trotsky, Leon, 225
Trump, Donald, Jr. "Don," 273–74
Trump, Donald J.
on ending war in Afghanistan, 303
and Paul, 304
regulations established by and rolled back by, 153
on socialism in Venezuela, 3–4
State of the Union address, 3–4
Tupy, Marian, 28
Tutu, Bishop Desmond, 303
Twitter, 266–70, 279–80
tyranny and socialism, 169–77
United Nations General Assembly and Khmer Rouge, 201
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 255–56, 261
United States
blowback from interfering in foreign civil wars, 195
fake news and propaganda, 279–85
the protected vs. the unprotected, 50
and responsibility for climate change, 256–57
'safe cities' project, 288
Scandinavians living in, 117–23
Social Security pension program, 99–101
surveillance and traffic cameras in urban centers, 291
tax rates, 112
Vietnam War and bombing Cambodia, 195
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 66
United States government
and benefits for senior citizens, 48
Bureau of Labor statistics on workers' wages, 36–37
cronyism and paternalism, 44, 49
See also specific presidents
universal basic income (UBI) proposal, 253
University of the Andes Hospital, Mérida, Venezuela, 2–3
unprotected vs. protected, 50
Utley, Freda, 212–14
Utley, Jon, 212–14
utopia, 219–26
overview, 219–20
dictatorships from effort to create utopia, 221
human imperfections as roadblock, 222
as inevitable, 223–24
leaders' inability to push history without force, 222–23
utopian determinism theory, 236–43
Utopia (More), 219–20
Utopian Road to Hell (Murray), 224–25
value-added tax (VAT), Scandinavian sales tax as, 97–98, 115, 116
Venezuela
and Chavez, 9–10, 12–16, 17, 28, 119
Chile compared to, 11
hospital conditions, 2–3
inflation, poverty, and starvation in, 2, 3, 9, 15
at its peak, 10
leftist portrayal of success in, 9
and Maduro, 1–2, 9–10, 13, 14–16, 18, 28
money stolen by socialist leaders, 17–19
and oil industry, 9, 10, 11–12, 14, 15
path to socialism, 10–16
price controls in, 24–25, 27–28
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Washington, D.C., 72, 73
Vietnam, 201
View, The, 86
von Platen, Baltzar, 90
voting and income inequality, 45
wage controls, 133–38, 151–52, 154–55
Wagener, Otto, 145–46
Walmart employment practices, defense of, 44
Walsh, Chad, 221
Wang, Dr. Ming, 180–81, 183
Wang, Maya, 296
Wang Ziyou, 175
Wanner, Adrian, 229, 232–33
war
blowback from U.S. interference in foreign civil wars, 195
Cambodia and the Vietnam War, 195
coalitions in Congress for ending Afghan and Yemen wars, 304
driven by desire for recognition, 242
as protection from corruption of everlasting peace, 242
survival of the most brutal, 199
Sweden's avoidance of, 91
Warren, Elizabeth, 250
Washington Post, 35, 261, 280
Watson, George, 139, 142–43, 145–46, 156
wealth, 30, 45, 52, 56–59
wealth tax, 29, 47, 107–8, 110–11, 113–14
Webb, Beatrice, 159, 160
Webb, Sydney, 159
Weiss, Kai, 113
welfare states, 110–16
overview, 99–102
in Britain, 130, 132–33
in Scandinavia, 85–86
in Sweden, 92
taxing the middle class to pay for, 94, 97–98, 110–16
United States, 254
We (Zamyatin), 165, 229–31, 233–34
What Is to Be Done? (Chernyshevsky), 226
'What the Stat About the 8 Richest Men Doesn't Tell United States About Inequality' (NPR), 51
Whig Interpretation of History (Butterfield), 223
Whisperers, The (Figes), 208–9
Whittaker, G. Clay, 296, 297
Williams, Walter, 51–52
Williamson, Kevin, 39
Willis, Josh, 260
Wilson, Peter, 15
Wingquist, Sven, 90
Winship, Scott, 42–44
"Winter Notes on Summer Impressions" (Dostoyevsky), 227
work and reward relationship, 170
work ethic and culture in Scandinavia, 119–22
World Bank, 14, 85
world climate summit, Cancun, Mexico, 256
World Inequality Report (WIR), 79–80, 81, 82
World War I and Mao's rise, 171–72
World War II and Mao's rise, 172
Worstall, Tim, 31–32
Wyden, Ron, 298
Xiaogang, China, 190–93
Xi Jinping, 180
Yagoda, Genrikh, 204–5
Yale University, 200
Yang Jisheng, 176–77, 184–85
Yen Hongchang, 190–93
Yen Jingchang, 190–93
Young, Adam, 151, 152, 153, 154
Young, Sarah J., 228, 229
Yu Dehong, 175–76
Zamyatin, Yevgeny, 165, 229–31, 233–34
Zehao Zhou, 185
Zhang Tiesheng, 182
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U.S. senator Rand Paul, M.D., is one of the nation’s leading advocates for liberty. Elected to the United States Senate in 2010, he has proven to be an outspoken champion for constitutional liberties and fiscal responsibility. As a fierce advocate against government overreach, Senator Paul has fought tirelessly to return government to its limited, constitutional scope. A graduate of Duke University School of Medicine, Dr. Paul completed his residency in ophthalmology at Duke University Medical Center. Since his election to the U.S. Senate, Dr. Paul has continued to perform eye surgery pro bono in his home state of Kentucky and on medical mission trips to countries around the world.
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