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Originally Posted by Astronomer
If two countries pay the same in taxes, yet one country gets "free" (in the sense that I am using the term) healthcare and the other does not, this must been that one country is utlising the taxes to create a public healthcare scheme, whereas the other country is using their taxes towards other avenues (in the US, most taxes primarily go towards military and interest on debt.)
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The underlined is hilarious because it is indicative of the general ignorance I'm dealing with in this thread. Yes, if you were to combine two completely different aspects of the Federal budget they would become larger than any one category.
Unless, of course, we had a category called "Entitlements", which amounts for a whole 45% of the budget for Medicaid & Social Security alone. These two items account for 23% & 22% of the 2012 budget, are insolvent, and are set to expand dramatically in the years upcoming.