"Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer than Most of the United States"
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Said it better than I didPurpleJ said:The elite love socialism. Tax the shit out of the middle and upper middle class that are trying to take their spot on top. Buy the votes of the poor with "free" shit that is paid for via reduced earning potential and job creation. That's been the game for years over there.
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The top in Europe does well but gets taxed much more to pay for popular social programs.RaceBannon said:No the top does great regardless. Europe has some of the richest families on earth.
People in Venezuela finally have an equal distribution of wealth. They don't even have toilet paper but the Chavez daughter has billions of dollars
Big risk big reward. If you want your future to be secure and settled be ready to settle for less
Venezuela! It’s the only socialist country in the world from which to compare. -
How about disposable median income? Kind of destroys your whole point about income disparity.HardlyClothed said:GDP per capita is not a good tool for this comparison. You have to factor in distribution of wealth and how robust the social safety net is.
In the US GDP distribution is concentrated at the top and our social programs are severely lacking. Most Euros have much more equal distribution of wealth and comprehensive safety nets. This in addition to much stronger workers rights which balance the power of capital and labor.
Edit: I'll help the leftists out, there's literally only ONE country on there where the adjusted disposable median income is actually WAY HIGHER than the GDP per capita. In other words, the thing you are complaining about on the original chart actually FUCKS your own argument that it's simply GDP being "in the hands of the 1%" and unequally distributed. -
We can compare any of them and the end result is the sameHardlyClothed said:
The top in Europe does well but gets taxed much more to pay for popular social programs.RaceBannon said:No the top does great regardless. Europe has some of the richest families on earth.
People in Venezuela finally have an equal distribution of wealth. They don't even have toilet paper but the Chavez daughter has billions of dollars
Big risk big reward. If you want your future to be secure and settled be ready to settle for less
Venezuela! It’s the only socialist country in the world from which to compare.
Europe has never had the kind of immigration we always have had and are close societies by and large that are now feeling the love from the refugee influx
They also have us to pay for their defense since the stupid fucks can't go ten years without wiping each other out -
I have a friend who moved to Canada. Got a job doing IT work for their IRS. At first, he bragged about his FREE healthcare and how great Canada was. He was real smug about how great socialism was going. A few years later, he is living at his wive's parents' place crying about Trump on facebook. (Canadians love to talk about American politics. National pastime #2 behind hockey.) I tried to warn him before he moved out there, but he wouldn't hear anything about taxes being passed on to the consumer. Enjoy your utopia fuckface.
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If you're going to prop up failed economic models that have led to the death of millions why not Fascism that had the trains run on time or National Socialism that rebuilt Germany?
I'll tell you why, because your school tries to teach you that the obvious failure and high death toll of socialism or communism were a bug, not a feature
We have by far the best system for the most people and plenty left over for those who can't fend for themselves including Europe and our system destroyed Nazis, Fascists, and Communists -
unless you're already pour ... like @YellowSnowRaceBannon said:
Equal distribution of wealth = poorerHardlyClothed said:GDP per capita is not a good tool for this comparison. You have to factor in distribution of wealth and how robust the social safety net is.
In the US GDP distribution is concentrated at the top and our social programs are severely lacking. Most Euros have much more equal distribution of wealth and comprehensive safety nets. This in addition to much stronger workers rights which balance the power of capital and labor. -
This is true.RaceBannon said:No the top does great regardless. Europe has some of the richest families on earth.
People in Venezuela finally have an equal distribution of wealth. They don't even have toilet paper but the Chavez daughter has billions of dollars
Big risk big reward. If you want your future to be secure and settled be ready to settle for less -
J with the mic drop!!!!!!!!!RaceBannon said:
Said it better than I didPurpleJ said:The elite love socialism. Tax the shit out of the middle and upper middle class that are trying to take their spot on top. Buy the votes of the poor with "free" shit that is paid for via reduced earning potential and job creation. That's been the game for years over there.
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Them's fighting words.HardlyClothed said:GDP per capita is not a good tool for this comparison. You have to factor in distribution of wealth and how robust the social safety net is.
In the US GDP distribution is concentrated at the top and our social programs are severely lacking. Most Euros have much more equal distribution of wealth and comprehensive safety nets. This in addition to much stronger workers rights which balance the power of capital and labor.
