And that hits the point that the US is very different in a lot of ways, and changing one of those things without changing the others is difficult. Its harder t

And that hits the point that the US is very different in a lot of ways, and changing one of those things without changing the others is difficult. Its harder to make health care cheaper because of the salaries, drug cost, hospital costs, etc. A lot of those things are expensive because of education costs, housing cost, etc. And don't forget the lawyer happy culture that raises costs too. Then once you fix that, you have to take into account the added cost of the current poor demographic, illegal immigration, etc. Then when you fix that...etc etc etc. Its a very complicated net of problems. Its not as simple as "LOL wave a wand and make it free". It's made worse in that you have to kick down some people a few notches to have similar taxes (upper middle class would get taxed way more) combined with how a lot of people moved to the US because they did better $$ money with low taxes, and you'll have a lot of pissed off people. Yes, all that needs to happen eventually, but it's very painful to actually do.