EricS

In European countries you get universal healthcare, you pay more like 45% income taxes or higher, and hardworking laborers get to enjoy 35-hour work weeks with huge cafe breaks in the middle of the day. Also Canada gets universal healthcare funded by GST taxes.Also in Europe you get a Value Added Tax (VAT) which is fascinating, it is a tax on the value added to inventory as a result of direct labor and machine hours of goods. This fulfills a much needed supply of government revenues to help equalize living standards for all residents of Europe. Why can't the US take after Europe and try to help the poor people live better so our economy can prosper more?

ChangeWEcanbelievein

Why don't you move to Europe? America isn't the greatest for no reason.

MaddvladM

the wealthy run the government and of course they don't want to lose their wealth so instead they created this bs theory called the trickle down theory which essentially means give them tax money cause they are rich.

DaveW

If it is so great there, what are you doing here. Please do not let us keep you down. That just would not be fair. Go, go like the wind, move to one of these countries you idolize so much.

hmn186282

Because America is the land of freedom, and not oppressive government taxation and regulation. Oh, we had European style taxes once: on tea, on stamps, etc. That worked well - until 1775!In Europe, the people exist to serve the gov't. In America, the government exists (in theory) to serve the people. Let's not forget that.

Jedi

If its so great there why are people clamoring to live and educate themselves here. The only people who want to leave are chicken shit liberal actors, who never leave anyway.

InReality01

I wonder why Europe has huge inflaction, high unemployment and doesn't produce anything of significance.People should be able to enjoy the fruits of their own labor and keep what they make. Individuals are responsible for themselves and their own families and not others.Government is simply suppose to keep us free & safe and then stay out of the way.The government only consumes. For every dollar it gives out it must first confiscate it from the citizens. In fact, government is the least efficient place to have revenue go to. For every dollar it takes it consume a huge part of that simply to pay for all of its' tentacles.The United States is great because of our freedom. The U.S. was founded by people who wanted a small central government and low taxation. Our nation offers more for individuals than any socialist or communist nation could ever dream of. Our nation's so-called "poor" live better than many middle class people in your lovely Europe.The U.S. is based on freedom, small government and low taxes. It was not founded to give some people free housing, free healthcare, etc, etc. on the backs of other Americans.Our nation propsers when taxes are low, regulation is low, government consumes the bare minimum of what it needs to provide essential services and people are free to engage in commerce on their own terms.God Bless America

jimbo6369

You need to catch up on what is going on in Western Europe. Most of these countries have found that their LIBERAL POLICIES ARE NOT WORKING and are actually trying to DECREASE the role of government. Time to play some catch-up on the news friend!!

Stedway

Why would I want to pay the high taxes Europe forces on their people?To take care of people like you? I think not.I already pay over 30% of my income in taxes; I have no desire to pay any more to take care of freeloaders who lack the ambition to achieve success.

RichardV

A court reporter in a Supreme Court decision interpreted Corporations as having the Rights of People. Later the Supreme Court ruled Money is Free Speech.These decisions combined with extreme right wing Conservative regimes (Reagan, Bush I and Bush II) and a Democrat who acted like a Republican on Economic Issues (Clinton: NAFTA, WTO, Telecommunication Act-that further consolidated the already Conservative Corporate media) which all pushed an undemocratic agenda of privatization (see HMOs-profit by denial of claims), deregulation (see Energy-manipulation of supply, offshore shell Corporations, record high prices, blackouts and bankruptcies) and Corporate-managed "Free Trade" (Millions of permanently lost good paying Union jobs, an increase in illegal immigration and record trade defecits and a record lowering of the value of the U.S. Dollar) all helped make sure that Lobbyists from Corporate Health Insurance Companies, Private HMOs and Pharmacuetical Corporations had more clout than the majority of the U.S. population that wants, and is willing to pay more taxes for- Universal Single Payer Healthcare.Europe sounds great-I have ancestoral heritage from Ireland , Italy and The Netherlands (which I'd probably choose since Italy keeps electing a far right extremist.) If I didn't have children from a previous marriage I'd move to Europe!According to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not provide universal health care.Virtually all of Europe has publicly sponsored and regulated health care. Countries include Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.