Germany...a country with one of the highest levels of wealth inequality in the world (roughly equal to the US). With median net household wealth below Greece, a

Germany...a country with one of the highest levels of wealth inequality in the world (roughly equal to the US). With median net household wealth below Greece, and one of the highest proportion of billionaires in the world. Endemic corporate corruption, low competition, non-existent regulation, weak unions...people in glass houses. Also, the US has one of the largest public healthcare systems in the world. Comparisons are slightly complicated but, as a % of GDP, it is roughly the same size as Germany (on a tax base a fraction of the size). The only nation in Europe that actually has a larger public health sector than the US is Sweden. Work is the only way to lift people out of poverty. Germany is a self-evident example of this: the economy revolves around large corporations who are heavily protected by competition from govt. I would bet on the competitive American model that can renew itself every time over the corporatist model that protects wealthy industrialists in exchange for meagre handouts to the poors. The US tax system is a great example of the potential of redistribution (particularly, property taxes...an area of notable weakness in Germany).