Yes, got it! Let’s say I grew up in very high effective (and marginal) tax rate economy where innovation continues to be suffocated. I don’t recommend it.
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Let’s make a deal. I won’t use Venezuela as an example. I admit it is flawed. You don’t use DARPA and Bell Labs era as an example since they are obviously flawed. I volunteer Brazil & France as example of high regulation and taxes killing innovation. What is the counter example?
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I think the challenge of comparing the U.S.'s level of innovation/taxation to Europe or Latin America is the conflating factor of it having had the largest contiguous market of middle-class consumers in the world until China.
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Not really the same. A key difference is that many on the left would whip out Venezuela as a positive example when things appeared superficially to be going well. So it’s fair game to be using it as a counterexample, certainly when debating interlocutors that previously did that.
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Who is "many" and "on the left"? I think I maybe remember exactly one Venezuelan person who said that to me 12 years ago, who then actually literally ended up working for the Chavez regime after grad school and then fled to Chile.
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Cutler's Law
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Also, we really need two different discourse terms for the thing the Swedish government does (high taxes and redistribution) and the thing Venezuela does (trying to flout supply and demand while robbing Peter to pay Paul)...
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