<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i class="">The Wall Street Journal</i> <span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"> February 6</span>,<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"><b class=""> 2019</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 195);"></span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br class=""></span></div><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b class="">Venezuela’s Collapse Exposes the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> <span class="">Fake Socialism</span> </span>Debated in U.S.</b></p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><i class="">By</i> </span><i class="" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 195);">Greg Ip</i></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 128, 195); min-height: 17px;"><i class=""></i><br class=""></div><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 14.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Excerpts : Some polls find young American adults prefer socialism to capitalism, and self-described democratic socialists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York congresswoman, and Bernie Sanders, a Vermont senator, have captured the hearts and minds of the Democratic Party. </b></span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 14.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Right on cue, critics say they’d turn the U.S. into Venezuela</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span class="">.</span><span class=""> </span></span><span class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">I</span><span class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">n </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">his [ </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">2019 </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">] State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump condemned Venezuela’s “socialist policies,” then vowed: “America will never be a socialist country.” Republican legislators cheered lustily.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span></b></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 14.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class=""><span class=""><span class="">Would these people actually know socialism if they saw it</span>? </span><span class="">Taxing the rich, Medicare-for-all, and a Green New Deal that replaces fossil fuels with renewables are certainly liberal, probably radical, possibly unwise.</span></b></span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 14.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">But socialist? Hardly.</b></span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 14.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class="">They redistribute the outcomes of the market; they don’t replace the market with the state as the means of allocating production. 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color: rgb(82, 86, 90);" class="">Trump's State</span> of the <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 86, 90);" class="">Union</span> speech got off to a partisan start, with ... to underscore his<b class=""> capitalism vs.</b> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 86, 90);" class="">socialism 2020</span> <b class="">campaign theme.</b></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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