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Originally Posted by HarryT
As a general rule, Europeans pay more tax than Americans, but we get more out of it - eg free education and health care. If you look at the overall average of what people spend on stuff like that, it all works out pretty much the same. We all have our own way of doing things.
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Free education? I hope you're talking university-level education here. Because education is a given, and government-paid-for, to every child between Kindergarten and 12th grade here in the US. Yes, parents *can* choose to pay for private schooling, but they don't have to.
As for medical, you'd be surprised how many people get government-funded health care as well as employer-paid health insurance. No, it's not total, but the percentage of Americans who don't get some form of free/insurance-covered health care isn't that high.
Derek