Whether Americans pay less in tax is debatable once all taxation is included. Whether Americans pay far more for health insurance, and whether they're far more

Whether Americans pay less in tax is debatable once all taxation is included. Whether Americans pay far more for health insurance, and whether they're far more likely to be bankrupted by a health crisis, has a very straightforward answer: "yes." Privatised social services - most obviously health, but also some utilities, transport systems, rented housing, and so on - are de facto corporate taxes. Americans are subjected to constant and insistent "private good, government bad" propaganda from birth, so it's not always easy to get this point across. Even so. If you're being forced to pay for essential services, and those services are unaffordable and/or may bankrupt you, you would - unquestionably - find that public ownership would be significantly less precarious and more affordable.