miles wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Myal wrote

As soon as the country does everything for you, the country is near collapse.

Bet you cant list even a single country that has ever collapsed that way.

Russia

Doesnt qualify. It went for half a century attempting to do that before it collapsed
and it collapsed for other reasons, essentially because the political system doesnt
work over the long haul and they couldnt keep up with the US on military spending.

China certainly didnt collapse because they attempted that route. They eventually
came to their senses and realised that capitalism just works a lot better.

with many more struggling with the high cost of socialism.

Socialism aint communism. And I bet you cant actually list any countrys
'struggling with the high cost of socialism'. Plenty of those have even better
real living standards than the US has and the US has plenty of socialism too,
most obviously with public schools, medicare, medicade, social security etc etc etc.

In fact ALL modern first world countrys are a mix of socialism and capitalism.

And so are plenty of other places like china too.

Socialism has failed every time it's tried.

Pig ignorant lie.

Socialism is a failure.

Pig ignorant lie.

Most European socialist countries have absurdly high taxes that is crippling.

Pig ignorant lie, only a few of them do.

Along with absurd income taxes they also pay incredible sales taxes (15%) and $7+ gas most of
which is tax.

What matters is the total tax take and even HongKong had some socialism and very low taxes.

In the UK they are having to reduce funding of free collage in order to pay for a cash strapped
healthcare system.

Pig ignorant lie.

Pity about the extensive socialism in the US too.