The Great American Ripoff: The High Cost of Low Taxes
October 29, 2013
by Joshua Holland
The American people pay a similar amount for social services – health
care, retirement security, disability and unemployment insurance and
the like – as citizens of European countries with supposedly lavish
social safety nets.
But there are two significant differences. First, we pay a hugely disproportionate share of the costs out-of-pocket*, through the private sector. And when things go badly – when misfortune hits — the safety net that we fall back on is truly pathetic in comparison. Call it the great American rip-off.
But there are two significant differences. First, we pay a hugely disproportionate share of the costs out-of-pocket*, through the private sector. And when things go badly – when misfortune hits — the safety net that we fall back on is truly pathetic in comparison. Call it the great American rip-off.
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