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>I, on the other hand, think that high taxes end up benefitting everyone through greater services for those down on their luck which seems to translate to less desperation, less resentment, less classism, less crime.

That's a perfectly reasonable decision.

That said, far more Scandinavians have calculated that they would rather have the US approach than the other way around. Whether on an absolute or (especially) per capita basis, far more Swedes and Norwegians move to the US than follow your lead and move to Scandinavia.

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Your argument made more sense when it was between two basically identical cultures (America, Canada). How many Americans (who largely only speak English) are going to leave the country to live in another one?

But the per-capita ratios in favor of people from a given country moving to the US, versus Americans moving to said country, are massive regardless of country and regardless of whether that country speaks English. Australia as of a few years ago was the only country on earth in which more Americans on an absolute basis lived there than Australians in America, but a) the difference wasn't that large, and b) on a per-capita basis the ratio was still 20:1 in favor of an Australian choosing to move to the US compared to the other way around.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4rcl0o/til_a...