“Bernie likes to point to Sweden as a success story, but if their government is taking such good care of them why do their household debt stats look like their all living on second mortgages and maxed out credit cards?”
Bernie’s supporters need to check out the Swedish tax rates. It might explain the high debt. Not much left after the Socialist Swedes take their cut.
Not even Sweden is the welfare-state nirvana most leftists like Bernie think it is:
https://mises.org/blog/turning-their-backs-swedens-welfare-state
Sweden realized some time ago that it was on an unsustainable path.