Americans are used to taking comfort in the fact that European countries such as Sweden, France and Finland are inefficient "welfare states." Even if American competitiveness slacks off a bit, the thinking goes, we'll always be on top because the United States would never allow government to get as burdensome as it is in socialist foreign lands. It's time to start thinking differently as the U.S. bureaucracy expands to record levels.
....even after adjusting for differences in the cost of living and the number of citizens in each country, total U.S. government spending per capita in 2009 exceeded that of all but eight nations in the world. More than 95 percent of countries have smaller relative governments than we do. In total, U.S. government spending came to $17,400 per capita, or about $70,000 for a family of four. The per capita cost of our government is much more than the per capita income of most of the world.
(These numbers do not yet include the increased costs due to ObamaCare™ or the upcoming Porkulus spending. Plus you could leave out the money we're borrowing from China to protect Japan and Taiwan from China, plus all other defense spending, and we'd still be ahead of 93% of other countries in non-defense spending per capita.)
....We can't afford to throw away $70,000 on government for a family of four. If that fortune weren't funding the bureaucratic leviathan, it would be invested, saved or spent on consumer products people want.
Hell, we're even spending more money than some of the "Social Democrat" nations that provide healthcare, 4-week vacations, subsidized everything, and guaranteed employment, all from cradle to grave. From erection to resurrection. Where the hell is the money going?
It could be used for productive purposes to get the economy moving again. Instead, the money goes down a rathole, dragging America's competitive edge with it.
Hell, we're even spending more money than some of the "Social Democrat" nations that provide healthcare, 4-week vacations, subsidized everything, and guaranteed employment, all from cradle to grave. From erection to resurrection. Where the hell is the money going?
It could be used for productive purposes to get the economy moving again. Instead, the money goes down a rathole, dragging America's competitive edge with it.
Just think....They are spending, I repeat, they are spending $17,000.00, per year of your money. And for what ???
You can tax the rich and the fortunate wealthy. You can apply a punitive tax to Wal-Mart. You can confiscate every penny from every American earning more than $250,000.00 per year. All you'll be doing is giving them incentives to stop being productive, or force them to raise the prices of the goods and services that they provide.
We have to stop voting for people who want to spend money. We have to stop.
Socialist flag pics came from here and here.
2 comments:
If I am going to have to pay a high level of taxes, in many ways I would prefer to be in one of those other countries. In the US we pay a high level of taxes and get very little for it except war and destruction, in some of those other countries at least the money is filered back to the people in the form of over priced healthcare and social services. My first choice of course is freedom from both.
Nice of you to leave out Britain! We are epically in the hole and the IMF is about to take our thumbs. You also left out Greece which is a complete basket-case. This will break the EU in the end. The Germans are getting sick of doing the heavy lifting. And I don't blame 'em. Allen, been following the UK election? It's starting to get interesting. God knows what will emerge on May 7th.
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