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Millennials like socialism — until they get jobs. Or until a pollster tells them that it would mean tax increases but doesn’t tell them, for example, that the tax increases would replace healthcare insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses. And doesn’t tell them that “more government services” means something other than, say, trash collection twice a week instead of once a week.

…number of economic freedom measures such as less business regulation and lower corporate tax rates, young people like that country’s expanded social welfare programs. Coming of age during the Great…