Truth Matters We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the need to tax the rich more and to distribute wealth. The progressive left has ignored the plight of Venezuela and has pointed instead to Sweden as the model America should follow in its pursuit of socialism. Sweden, we’re told, is both prosperous and socialist. Wrong! Sweden is undoubtedly prosperous, but its redistribution experiments in the 1970s and 80s proved disastrous and were abandoned. When the film maker Ingmar Bergman found himself taxed at 124%, he moved out of the country. So did everyone else of means, The economy nearly collapsed. The people,