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new tax on workingmen's beer.
Sweden trod much the same path when it created its social security system in 1913, notes Baldwin. Only later would Scandinavia's socialists take credit for (and build upon) measures which many of them had in fact opposed.
Scandinavia's welfare states, says Bald- win, are not the product of "supposedly unique Scandinavian social virtues or. . .socialism's heroic march in these most quintessentially petty bourgeois of European nations. The origins of virtue...