Dalamaintnuthin wants to play some more? I'm bored, why not.
Always fun.
So you randomly chose a garbage one that you could easily refute. My my, the brilliance!
Do you have a clue what EITR is? Even Obama and the left in this country agrees our developed world leading EITR is too high.
Wait, am I proposing to raise the EITR? Reading comprehension, señor.
I didn't expect you to understand or even attempt to think through the global economic implications of a more competitive America. When you grow up a little and widen your focus you might return back to that thought experiment.
You're incredibly naïve. Corporate America isn't sequestering it's economic viability with its high tax-rates-- it's simply exploiting every tax-evading loophole to maintain its profit-generation.
I didn't use Japan as an example of a different health care system that the US could emulate. Your attempt to derail failed.
Wrong. You cited a problem of the Japanese health-care system that was crippling a decade ago-- since then, many efforts have and continue to attempt to fix it.
Define "justly", and while you're at it explain away the never ending waiting lines that virtually every country but the US rants about.
Every country complains about, yet every country refuses to adopt a US-liek system. Why? A) nations have curtailed wait times (Japan, Germany) while still providing universal coverage; B) most people would rather offer free health-care than cause humongous portions of its citizens to file for bankruptcy due to medical bills.
Our effective taxes on the rich are as high as Canada's and plenty other G20 nations. If you add in corporate double taxation they are much higher. We also just raised taxes on investment income by 50% and are yet to calculate what the higher effective tax rate will be.
Two words: tax evasion
We spend a trillion USD per year on millitary and yet we still manage to provide better healthcare to our citizens than wasteful countries like yours who would rather see people die of curable disease than increase health care spending.
Better healthcare to the minority of citizens that have access to it*** Only time your country ramps up spending on a health care technology is when there is an economic benefit to be drawn by it. Live by the dollar, die by the dollar. What a corrupt, socially out-of-touch nation you live in.
Stop the demagoguery and start thinking critically.
Likewise.
Our tax as a % of GDP is low because we're more productive, not because we don't tax enough. I suppose we could retard our economy and turn it into a European **** hole until GDP shrinks enough that taxes are high enough to please you leftist ideologues.
More like please the millions of citizens in your nations that your government is
failing to support. An embarrassment.
Also, as has been pointed out to you ad nauseum (hey that's fun throwing in debate 101 buzz words!), comparing the US to minature states like Denmark is absurd. Excluding them takes away from your narrow minded, monolithic views that are out of touch with reality.
As has been pointed out by many social scientists, the practice used by many neoconservative Americans that "______ (nation) is not America therefore we have
nothing to learn from them" is stupid, and will eventually lead to the demise of the United States if this attitude does not change. Also, if you go through this thread you will realize that I have constantly referred to Japan & Germany as examples-- which if you consider a miniature state, then you're a fool.
