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The US is a massive, new, mostly empty frontier nation. It's ridiculous to expect the same level of social support as one has in relatively small, old, well-dev
by shrimp_emoji 3y ago
The US is a massive, new, mostly empty frontier nation. It's ridiculous to expect the same level of social support as one has in relatively small, old, well-developed European nations.
The GDP difference seems more than enough to counter it, maybe, but socially, geographically, and historically, the US is a relatively libertarian project where "high taxes and free healthcare" are anathema.
- badpun 3y ago> the US is a relatively libertarian project where "high taxes and free healthcare" are anathema. Isn't that just the last 4 decades though? Before that, US had very high taxes and was not against spending on social programs. That all changed with Reagan and after, but it's not some set of core American values, but rather just the current, and relatively recent, dogma.