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"That's being tried in about 50 as we speak. "
Democratic Socialism isn't quite communism, or at least not the kind of one party communism we saw in east Europe. You may argue it decays into that, but I'd think you'd missing the whole democracy aspect, if you did. Personally I think there is a continum there going from little goverment envolvement in the economy to very heavy management.

I heard Oregon put up to a public vote wether to raise an income tax that would then pay for state run health care. That would be an experiment going in the other dirrection.

Personaly, I say go for it. I don't want the world to become so hemogenized that nobody tries new things. I'm all for state experimentation.

I've got one question: what can you do about income tax on the state level? It seems like they would have to leave the Union to really try everything they'd want to do. Would they take with them thier share of the national debt? the military? Would they stay in NAFTA?