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Ilan Alon is Professor of International Business at the School of Business & Law, University of Agder, Norway, an

Americans are Falling into the Socialist Trap by Blaming Capitalism for the Damage of Statism.

Americans are falling into the socialism trap by not realizing that solving big government problems with an even bigger one is dangerous. Many blame capitalism for their affordability problems, when the true cause is statism. Statism is the gradual replacement of civil society, markets, savings, and individual choice by political control, public spending, regulation, taxation, and monetary intervention.