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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
Healthcare average expense in the US taxpayers' (working family) budget is $8,000 a year. The cost of bread and food stuffs are not subsidised in the US like I saw in Europe -- like a loaf of bread in France for ,80 to 1,6 euro and domestic cheese prices were a lot lower there. But you forgot to add the VAT tax on consumer spending in Europe so add that 18% to 22% (on consumption -- in France this was only 5% on food VAT  -- where I live the sales tax on food is 0%) to the European taxpayer's rate. |
The figures were for all taxes including VAT.
Your healthcare costs are per person not per family. Find one that disagrees, you might find it hard. Did you include Government spending on Healthcare?
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Tax rates between the European countries and the US is really a red herring and irrelevant argument. You are comparing apples and oranges. This is like comparing Chinese and EU tax rates -- to what end? The services delivered to the population for their tax money are radically different.
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Precisely my point, we get a lot more for our money.
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Rural America has always had a high poverty rate. There are an elite group of corporate landowners and less elite farmers receiving crop subsidies but only some of rural America are getting government scraps of of some sort. In extreme cases of social welfare; food stamps, general assistance, and/or some grants or low cost loans as mentioned. Urban inhabitants get US federal assistance also. Urban America tends to be more aligned with the Democrat Party and rural America more aligned with the Republican Party -- this may be true -- but so what?
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Because the poor vote for the rich to get richer. And if voters don't start to vote differently nothing will change. One President can't change as much as some think.
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We are all Americans and have some common interests to build upon?
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Americans don't have common interests. The rich don't share any interest with the poor.