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> we spend a lot of our GDP on healthcare. part of this is due to other countries paying much less for new developments than we do. ... > my issue isn't especi
by BoiledCabbage 2y ago
> we spend a lot of our GDP on healthcare. part of this is due to other countries paying much less for new developments than we do. ...
> my issue isn't especially with the funding so much as it is with ensuring the rest of the world pays what they owe. America has functioned since WWII as a large charity project for those less capable of running a great nation (namely, everyone). i am pretty sick of seeing my tax bill every year and knowing that. so too are many, many others.
Man, spoken like a true Brexit voter - absolutely sure that they're tired of how the EU is just leaching off the backs of the unappreciated UK. Placing the blame on those foreigners for all the problems at home, and cutting them off will show them how much they needed us all along.
Some storylines are just too tantalizing to looking into the details of. They must be correct because they feel correct to me.
As the UK so bluntly and drastically learned, getting suckered by those storylines sucks when reality comes calling.
- _bin_ 2y agothe only thing this suggests that brexit was the wrong way to extract adequate value from the leech nations of europe. it doesn’t negate the basic point that the EU consists of many countries relying on net contributions from only a few. britain’s point wasn’t wrong. thankfully, America is a much larger and more important nation so we should be able to do a better job of it.