{"id":24489,"date":"2017-07-28T12:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24489"},"modified":"2017-08-14T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T20:11:58","slug":"image-of-the-day-almost-all-european-nations-would-be-poor-u-s-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24489\/image-of-the-day-almost-all-european-nations-would-be-poor-u-s-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Almost All European Nations Would Be Poor U.S. States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Mises Institute, a helpful <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/blog\/if-sweden-and-germany-became-us-states-they-would-be-among-poorest-states\" target=\"_blank\">corrective<\/a> to the strangely persistent myth that life is better in Europe than the United States. \u00a0As this <a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-0DUVq9s0eN4\/Vi5aYpjEMSI\/AAAAAAAAIvQ\/HkzAig-uflM\/s1600\/nonrppadjustedmedian.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">graph<\/a> demonstrates, if European nations were U.S. states, almost all of them would be poor ones. \u00a0That also includes Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Most European Nations Would Be Poor U.S. States\" class=\"   \" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-0DUVq9s0eN4\/Vi5aYpjEMSI\/AAAAAAAAIvQ\/HkzAig-uflM\/s1600\/nonrppadjustedmedian.jpg\" alt=\"Most European Nations Would Be Poor U.S. States\" width=\"538\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only three nations &#8211; Switzerland (which notably has no minimum wage), Luxembourg and Norway &#8211; exceed the U.S. median income, and keep in mind that doesn&#8217;t account for the far lower cost of living (i.e., purchasing power) in the U.S. \u00a0Something to keep handy the next time Bernie Sanders speaks of overseas utopias, or friends on social media instruct us all on some better way of living, as Merle Haggard would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/merlehaggard\/thefightinsideofme.html\" target=\"_blank\">say<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Mises Institute, a helpful corrective to the strangely persistent myth that life is better in Europe than the United States. \u00a0As this graph demonstrates, if European nations were U.S. states, almost all of them would be poor ones. \u00a0That also includes Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Only three nations &#8211; Switzerland (which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[590,4958,4021,4973],"class_list":["post-24489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-europe","tag-image-of-the-day","tag-income","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24489"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24512,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24489\/revisions\/24512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}