I don’t have much to add to thus other than it has become so obvious that we need to raise taxes to battle the income disparity in this country than none other than Alan Greenspan now advocates it. More specifically, Greenspan points to Sweden as a model for the United States to follow to fund social security and health benefits.
Here’s the quote: “[Sweden] is a perfect example of a country that had the problem we had in the U.S. today, and they solved it. It’s not the deficits, it’s the issue of not funding increased expenditures.”