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Yes..well, make no mistake. Norway is pure communism/socialism with a "smile". Our standards of living is quite high - but remember, our productivity is off the wall. If we had lower taxes and more incentive for innovation we'd probably be more technologically advanced than Japan.

But even though we're granted some freedoms, our government is socialist. They use any methods imaginable to find people who leech off the welfare system, they tax people who work incredibly high, they steal children and there is almost no acceptance of living differently in any way. It's wrong to be rich and it's wrong to be poor. Everyone should just be consensus-driven middle class politically correct sheep.