Rofl no they're not. And my Communist vision of central planning? Show me where I said as much. Go on. Show me in any of my posts where I insisted on a Communist central planning order. Go on. I'll keep bringing this gem up.
Just wrong. Nordic governments frequently prop up trade unions and intervene in labor markets. I'm no expert in Swedish labor law, but the idea that any Nordic country or European for that matter, is an open free market where unions and employers battle each other without government interference is a pipe dream. You're lacking any knowledge on the economic framework of Europe and attempting to debate me on how the economy of Europe is structured.Here's a newsflash: you don't need a central government for collective bargaining. It's called collective bargaining, it's not state-mandated labour laws.
Funny how you "don't need the EU" for free trade yet that's exactly what you did need. Before the EU every nation had to work with every other nation to reduce tarriffs, to work out the regulations, standards, and customs. You needed a supranational EU authority to enforce such things to promote economic prosperity within the European internal market. Again, so ignorant of history and of the economic structure of Europe.You don't need to EU for free trade (it's the default position without any national or supra-national entity blocking it), and really you're make decisions for themselves", when that the basis of capitalism. And all successful countries are capitalist, who then incidentally might go on to redistribute the wealth generated by capitalism to various degrees. Countries today are some of the freest they've ever been in human history.
Except it isn't and you're making it out as if Switzerland is "significantly different" from their European brethren. Which again, it isn't. The UK with it's universal healthcare system is an exception to the rule. Most European healthcare models make getting insurance mandatory, and the government has regulatory influence and actively participates in setting prices and standards of healthcare. That includes Switzerland which is incredibly invasive in what can be classified as "basic insurance" and how much it can cost. Moreover, Switzerland has several industries which are heavily controlled by the State like rail and Switzerland's gun control is far more strict than America's. There is also the fact that the gunowner culture in Switzerland doesn't stem from a paranoid fear of "fighting against tyrannical governments" like the 2nd amendment nuts in America. It stems from a highly isolationist policy that emphasizes defending your country from foreign invasion. In other words, the Swiss could be accurately described as using firearms to protect the state rather than considering overthrowing it. A stark reversal of the culture in America.One of the most successful country in Europe, Switzerland, is as much a "Libertarian paradise" as any, is has low taxes, it isn't in the EU, is isolationist in its military, it has high gun ownership, high labour and economic freedom, it doesn't have single-payer healthcare and it has a highly-decentralised, federated political system with referendums in which the citizens decide on certain issues through direct democracy. In other words, it's basically the opposite of everything you stand for, yet it works remarkably well.
The idea that Switzerland is in any way "libertarian" stems from the fact that libertarians have no country to call their own. Hence why they desperately cling to any fringe examples that would fit their definition which is tricky since much of the ideological rhetoric relies so heavily on "No True Scotsman" excuses.