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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Wait, most Social Democracies in Europe have citizens that lead longer happier lives.?

They pay more in taxes, but they make more money, their middle class is larger, they get free healthcare and higher education. Why are we afraid of a system that actually works better?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Because people in the USA are told that is bad.

    Some of the arguments that people use are right, most though are based on lies and half truths.

    Which is a shame.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You left out that they also have job security thru unions and pensions they can afford to live on and less debt and a higher net worth at age 35 than an average American.

    That is why American Conservatives hate them, they are the "Good Example" of what America could be.

  • ?
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    4 years ago

    The ancestors of maximum individuals of ecu descent left Europe to get faraway from what became happening there. The colonists fought and died to be certain we does not be like Europe. individuals appreciate the ultimate existence interior the international.

  • 1 decade ago

    We've just bailed most of them out in the past 2 years, not working too well. We're already $14 trillion in the hole.

    I'm sure that has to do with the government telling them how long they can work and how much they get paid.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Wrong. Social Democrat parties have fiscally killed their countries. Read a newspaper.

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