Recommendable!
"Hard times make strong people, the saying goes, but it didn’t work out that way for the Brits. Victorious but beaten to within a hair of its life from six years of war with Hitler, the United Kingdom opted for socialism. In a landslide election following victory in Europe in 1945, voters threw out Winston Churchill in favour of Labour Leader Clement Attlee who proceeded to create the British welfare state. After sacrificing everything to protect their freedom, voters chose a government that promised to look after them. Except for the period under Margaret Thatcher, who tried to turn the ship around, the U.K. has been on the road to serfdom ever since."
What happened in the UK immediately after WW II is indeed very peculiar and absolutely horrifying! To this day, the UK is stuck with a socialized national healthcare.
" ... In Canada, the administrative state is now ubiquitous. It regulates haircuts, dog food, cheese and mattresses. It taxes and subsidizes, plans and incentivizes, licenses and inspects. Over time, we have become more like China than China has become like us. ... "
Let’s not double-down on the nanny state | Fraser Institute: Markets are merely patterns of transactions.
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