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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (18590)8/4/2010 3:00:39 AM
From: dybdahl  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Communism-level nannyism is what you have, when the state sets up rules for behavior and hires people to check that people behave that way, in order to improve the productivity of citizens.

Having police spend their time checking for alcohol consumption is definitely close to that. In Denmark, that would be perceived as a huge violation of our individual freedom, and as an offense to tax payers. We do advocate reduced alcohol consumption, but we use taxes on alcohol instead, so that people who really, really want to drink, can buy it. Our worst nightmare would be the Swedish system, where they once introduced a communism-like system of rationing alcohol. That was undermined by EU rules, later.
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