How a country that forces you to pay ten dollars per whopper, has a combined total of seventy-five percent for taxes, and has incomes that range only to $57,000 can boast the highest standard of living is beyond me [“They Paid Me Cash for this Baby!,” April]. It sounds to me a bit like liberal propaganda. What Eric failed to point out was that it is the U.S. that supports Norway and provides the Norwegians with many of their social benefits. It is the U.S. that is buying more than its share of world oil, and therefore it is the U.S.—our consumption and social system—that support the relaxed life styles found in oil rich countries. The article implies the Norwegians somehow have discovered a social structure that includes all. Wouldn’t it be nice if we all had a goldmine in our backyard and we could point at those that aren’t so lucky and ask why they work so hard?
James W. Nelson
Eagan
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