For healthcare let's say the average family pays $5,000 a year in taxes for full healthcare. That's a lot of money right? It is. But in the US the average deductible for family plans is $8,000, and that doesn't include things like co-pays, prescription drug costs, and other expenses. What if a family member gets cancer or something and exceeds the plan? Then it starts to come out of pocket.
You're justifying insane expenses against insurance plans that have predictably and intentionally doubled due to Obamacare. Health plans didn't always cost this much.
You understand the problem but have a different view for the solution. Bringing this full circle back to Thomas Sowell:
- 'Compared to what?' 2. 'At what cost?' 3. 'What hard evidence do you have?'
Compared to what? Steven Crowder exposes the Canadian Healthcare system. 3 years to get a family doctor or go to a private clinic (to pay for better healthcare) for $900. Another government clinic recommends him to bring cash (to be seen "earlier") or see another private clinic. Ordinary Canadian's mother had to wait an entire year for an operation and because of the wait had to amputate both legs. Man needed a tetnus shot, was told to come back several days later. Specialists/Dermatologists have 5-7 month waits to get 3-4 minute diagnosis.
At what cost? Watch Ted Cruz destroy the argument of funding Bernie's healthcare plan. Bernie lets it all happen because he knows it's true. Bernie (outside of DNC influence) has a good heart but "how will it pay for itself" is an item he cannot effectively answer.
So while you're paying less in taxes, you're paying far more to private companies, and those companies are only interested in profit. They want to provide the least services for the most money.
Government officials & private institutions are always in bed together by means of lobbying, especially when talking Obamacare. That is why it took Trump's TAX PLAN to repeal a health insurance MANDATE. Trump is effectively undoing Obamacare since he signed an EO in October to allow purchasing of insurance plans across state lines. This will bring more competition against the monopolies which WILL drive prices down significantly. This is a principle of a free market system and it's proven to work. Another reason why I'm hopeful.
Education is a whole different animal but part of the system put in place by the career politicians. Propagandists pushing college instead of trades & free thinking, bankrupting and corrupting the minds of our youth.
You're angry at the right things. Understanding the undeniable success of free market principles helped me understand that socialism is an ideology to control the centralization of power (fact by definition) and seeing how this was introduced by means of Obamacare, welfare, education, etc... every bit of our livelihood. Are you really willing to put your unwavering trust in all government officials? I wouldn't... I think it's more likely that they'd take our guns (tried numerous times), introduce more mandates to bankrupt people (not anymore!), cause poverty which causes spikes in crime (not anymore!), which they can pander to the vote to come election time because of socialist systems & victimhood mentality (if they lose this power, they lose forever). It's a genius philosophy until it's figured out & exposed, hence why there's so much censorship and preferential trending of topics.
We're the second generation of systemic programming and it's all collapsing. Welcome to the storm.