• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    This isn’t limited to Americans or the US. The reason you are describing this in such tone is American exceptionalism, though, because I can just feel the indignation at this happening in the country you subconsciously expect to be exceptional.

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        6 months ago

        As certain kind of people say when talking about weapons, “that’s why we don’t have free healthcare, bitch”.

        In other words, those western democracies have huge taxes and small militaries.

        (I personally think that with some reduction of MIC-related corruption USA could have both good social nets and defense, but that’s the reality.)

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          We’ll ignore the fact that America pays as much per capita towards Medicare and MedicAid as Canada pays for its admittedly flawed universal healthcare and instead focus on the question. You think it’s better to spend more than the next 5(I think) countries on the military but also disagree with raising taxes even an iota to improve Healthcare coverage?