Unify Action - I Make These Socialists Admit Their Policies WON'T Help Canada!

00:00:00.000 Norway, Sweden, Finland, I think those are the countries that I think, I mean, they have their issues.

00:00:03.840 There's a lot of xenophobia in those countries and they have their issues, but I think economically, I like the way they do socialism.

00:00:10.460 I'm sorry, I'm going to have to debunk the Swedish socialism myth.

00:00:13.300 Okay, yeah.

00:00:14.400 You all mentioned that you were socialist.

00:00:16.660 I'll take it, yeah.

00:00:18.260 So can you tell me what draws you to socialism and what country's socialism you would like to model?

00:00:30.000 So basically what draws me to socialism and the idea that a lot of life has been very easy for me because I grew up in a opportune life.

00:00:39.980 You know, my parents had the money to send me to university and everything made life easier for me.

00:00:47.540 And I think that wealthy people should be then paying taxes so that people who don't have the money for university can go to university for free,

00:00:54.220 can have a universal basic income so they can explore their potential without being held back

00:01:01.380 by the class system. So I still believe in a market economy, but I think that wealthy people

00:01:08.960 should be paying more taxes so that other people have the opportunity to explore their potential.

00:01:15.700 And then we get a society where we don't have people who would be very good in high positions

00:01:21.620 but can't reach that because of the way that the class system is set up.

00:01:26.440 No, I didn't answer the country question.

00:01:28.760 I think that, like, in Sweden, you get a salary for going to university,

00:01:35.520 which means that basically anyone can go to university

00:01:38.300 and get the job that they're passionate about and that they would excel at.

00:01:43.760 Same in those countries, like Norway, Sweden, Finland.

00:01:47.000 I think those are the countries that I think, I mean, they have their issues.

00:01:49.440 there's a lot of xenophobia in those countries and they have their issues but I think economically

00:01:53.860 I like the way they do socialism if you try to take the cheapest option you're gonna it's gonna

00:01:59.520 be bad you gotta invest and that does increase taxes but if you do that just on the wealthy

00:02:04.220 wealthiest percentage that's not gonna affect their quality of life yeah um so you guys are

00:02:10.900 okay with an increase in taxes then on wealthy people yes okay so you pointed at Sweden okay

00:02:18.520 all right i will i'm sorry i'm gonna have to debunk the swedish socialism myth okay yeah if

00:02:24.720 that's okay with you guys all right so the 1950s they were the fourth wealthiest nation in the

00:02:31.060 world 1950s in the 1970s they decided hey we've had all this great success with our capitalism

00:02:37.820 but let's try socialism let's see how it goes so they did things like you guys are advocating for

00:02:45.020 They put in a whole lot of taxes on the wealthy, huge taxes on wealth, inheritance, and income.

00:02:52.640 They were okay for maybe 20 years, but they had problems that it spiraled down.

00:02:59.200 So they didn't add a single net job to their private sector for 20 years.

00:03:05.340 That was a huge problem.

00:03:06.820 Their unemployment rate skyrocketed, like, insanely.

00:03:10.100 and that even when they walked back those principles of like huge taxes on the wealthy

00:03:15.560 and inheritance tax and stuff like that when they walked that back they still had unemployment for

00:03:20.320 years to come they're doing okay now because they've walked those principles back and in 1990

00:03:25.240 they had an immense financial crash like they had to jack their interest rates the central break

00:03:31.120 jack their interest rates to like 500 for a couple days it was an insane economic crash

00:03:37.780 so and and they drove the wealthy from their country that's part of the reason that they

00:03:43.520 had no growth in their job market but also you're talking about all these economical things but how

00:03:48.420 what does that really change if they're uh consistently in the top five freest countries

00:03:53.020 in the world and top five happiest countries in the world well maybe they weren't in the 1990s

00:03:58.280 they are now because they walked things back they're a successful country now because of that

00:04:02.600 current uh swedish policies yeah but they right now they don't have any wealth redistribution

00:04:09.180 they they have much higher taxes than they do here and 80 of what you're taxed goes back to you

00:04:17.220 in during your lifetime it's redistributed through the rest of your lifetime 80 of what you're taxed

00:04:23.160 20 will go to someone else so like there's really no wealth redistribution and i feel like that's

00:04:28.660 what people want to advocate for in socialism they want to see wealth redistribution from the

00:04:33.660 rich because they fear they fear the rich they see the rich as like privileged yeah and that

00:04:40.020 yeah like those models examples of things that we can do the benefits obviously like you're saying

00:04:46.420 there's high rates of um like joblessness in this job markets that's the same problem we're facing

00:04:51.060 here in canada right that's why you're like we're talking to us about the job market right we see

00:04:54.520 such high levels of people not being able to afford jobs so it is also a universal problem

00:04:58.740 that we see everywhere in our capitalist system it's more countries that have more progressive

00:05:03.640 policies yeah i think that's a a universal problem that definitely we know won't be solved with you

00:05:08.820 know implementing a few more progressive viewpoints right it's a small things like the university

00:05:13.700 being free and um uh i think they have some basic income thing i don't know exactly it's a small

00:05:19.880 things that you know you're not going to fix with a couple policies yeah the only way in which you

00:05:27.240 can redistribute effectively the wealth is by destroying the incentives to have wealth

00:05:33.320 and the question is what is the way what is the system which will offer those people who are so

00:05:40.680 unlucky as to be born without good positions what is the system which will offer them the greatest

00:05:46.120 opportunity

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Unify Action - July 09, 2025

I Make These Socialists Admit Their Policies WON'T Help Canada!

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