Europe isn't as left-winged as we, Americans think (Thank God!) (standard of living, safe)
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And the thing about that is, we wouldn't even need to raise taxes to do it. We just need to redistribute them. If the money we spent on our war machine was spent on health care and education, the American versions would probably be the envy of the world.
perhaps but millitary spending is what keeps a large nation powerful ( always has ) , keeping down revolt in underdeveloped countries is what maintains wealthy lifestyles in the west , you cannot gain in capitalism unless someone else looses and i say that as a capitalist
In fact, in some cases, it's more right-winged than USA. For example, many Brits think that the government should have stricter control of immigration. Many people here, US, think that if your against immigration, you are racist.
Nothing right wing , left wing, or racist about immigration control, just limited resources, and the need for survival of nations and economies. We even now have people that are from previous immigrations, that are wanting tighter control on immigration.
On a scale, yes, Europe as a whole is a little closer to socialism than the US. However, that doesn't mean Europe is socialist, not even close. Both places are capitalist societies.
Yes if you are talking about how the economy works, but still many practices here are very socialistic. In example the overall tax rate is over 50% in many countries here. That is what I call socialism.
I could be wrong, but I think all of those have state funded healthcare systems, not just the overinflated private prices.
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