America has unprecedented amounts of income disparity in a developed country. (credit, company)

[whogo]

Scandinavians are poorer and live shorter lives than Scandinavian Americans.

[engineman]

If Europe is so grand, why are you still here? Not afraid of the terrorists are you?

[vladlensky]

Originally Posted by engineman

If Europe is so grand, why are you still here? Not afraid of the terrorists are you?

Because things aren't quite bad enough here yet to qualify for asylum status.

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by Nodpete

What other country has generations on welfare like the US ? Many families don't even look for a job, just automatically go on the dole for life.

Originally Posted by DefiantNJ

What other country provides corporate welfare to the very rich like the US?

You didn't answer the question.

There's no relationship between corporate tax rates and generational welfare.

Generational welfare is a socio-cultural thing, which is non-existent in the very small populations of homogeneous nation-States.

[River City Rocky]

Originally Posted by Mircea

You didn't answer the question.

There's no relationship between corporate tax rates and generational welfare.

Generational welfare is a socio-cultural thing, which is non-existent in the very small populations of homogeneous nation-States.

Such as?

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by xPlorer48

More prople=fewer resources such as rare earth metals...

Despite their name, so-called "rare earth metals" are not rare.

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by DefiantNJ

What other country provides corporate welfare to the very rich like the US?

There is no corporate welfare.

Originally Posted by DefiantNJ

What country just lowered the corporate tax to 20%, gave plenty of tax cuts to already rich, expanded tax loopholes

There are no tax loopholes.

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by vladlensky

Infrastructure consists of more than just roads and bridges, though. That's the issue. How many US cities can you go to and rely on just a bus/train/light rail/subway to reliably get from one neighborhood to another?

Thankfully very few. It is much more efficient to take my SUV to Costco and load it up. I'm imagining a dozen trips over the course of several days to effectively go to and return from Costco using "...just a bus/train/light rail/subway."

In fact, I'm thinking of that Costco run where I load up 400 pounds of water softener salt... now imagine me taking it on that bus/train/light rail/subway...

Yeah, doesn't compute.

[River City Rocky]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

Thankfully very few. It is much more efficient to take my SUV to Costco and load it up. I'm imagining a dozen trips over the course of several days to effectively go to and return from Costco using "...just a bus/train/light rail/subway."

In fact, I'm thinking of that Costco run where I load up 400 pounds of water softener salt... now imagine me taking it on that bus/train/light rail/subway...

Yeah, doesn't compute.

Yes but we should have the option to choose whether we want to live that lifestyle or not. We don't have the option to own a car or not....

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by River City Rocky

Yes but we should have the option to choose whether we want to live that lifestyle or not. We don't have the option to own a car or not....

Life is about tradeoffs.

People who wish to live in an urban environment with an extensive network of trains, subways, streetcars, buses etc can do so in cities who have such things. NYC has a population north of 8.5 million. I presume most of them wish to live in such an environment. Other major cities have public transportation infrastructure to a greater or lesser extent as well - Chicago, Philadelphia, DC, San Francisco come to mind.

For the 275+ Million of us who decide we do not want to live in those urban environments, it would be a misallocation of scarce resources to spend money on a vast array of trains, subways, streetcars, buses etc.