Originally Posted by
Ofmanv
This is a perfect illustration of the blissful ignorance of the socialist state. "In my socialist state this cost me 15 dollars, in yours it costs $6000. The $5985 difference just came from nowhere and helped me out so much."
All of these socialized European states pretend like their taxes are paying for their ridiculously expensive government budgets, and while you do pay a lot of taxes, it's still not paying for it. Every western European country is 2 1/2 times its GDP in debt. It's not a "strange coincidence".
Americans are already concerned about its federal govt's massive federal debt at 75% of the debt, we don't need it shooting up to European levels trying to make the government take on even more reponsibilities of dolling out everyone's personal prerogatives.
So ya, as long as we ignore where the money is going to come from, as every socialist country does and just runs up massive debt, socialism is great.