People talk about how socially progressive Scandinavia is but they have a shitload of petroleum resources and that money goes into social programs.
If a company's process produces waste, it should bear the entire cost of leaving the environment the way they found it rather than just pumping the waste into it. If a company's products are not reused, it should bear the cost of taking the used product back and restoring the world to the way it was before the product was built.
Of all the Scandinavian countries, only Norway has any oil resources of significance.
The Scandinavian welfare model is primarily tax-funded.
It looks like you're right and their oil exports are all import/export rather than domestic, but that's still a good bit of mineral wealth.
The racist moral panic over "welfare queens" seems to be a counter example.
Expect a real movement to reduce the number of citizens in this country. Specifically, if you can’t trace your lineage to a founding father (including for kids of Geman or iish immigrants), than they want you disenfranchised.
Heritage Americans vs “hyphenated Americans”
