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Don't want to? Great. Stop driving on those public roads. Take your kids out of school. Going to school yourself? Better be a private school with no federal loans. Oh, and no federal funding for the school. That's socialism. Also, stop drinking water from the tap. In fact, just stop using water altogether, unless you are on a well, in which case you are cool. Not socialist. Unemployment benefits...ever used them? Well, stop using them, commie. Ever called the cops? Socialist as hell, real Americans buy their own security...it's called an AK-47, hippie.

And so on and so forth. Socialism and capitalism have worked just fine together for a long, long time.

You know what, I think I'll give this one to you.

We have some socialist programs and they are draining us If any other country is so great , What the hell are you doing here?

Oh and mine is a AR15 cause I like to buy AMERICAN

If you up minimum wage you drive youth unemployment way up as people who are young are risk to the company so they want someone reliable who has experience so youth unemployment will go up

Women weren't working hear me out if two people are working there is more money then the cost of housing increased as there is effectively double the income so if you are a single parent male or female you will have a really hard time with the cost of living being so high

??? So better for the country and family and sign of a good economy if two people have to work to pay the bills?

When it was one person the cost was lower so your wife would look after your children that means you don't need any child care

Indeed, why should women work and be financially independent?

Great Depression, colorized.

I know... mind blown. ;)

It's been like that since before this country was a country. Why does the government provide subsidies for mineral exploration? Shouldn't that be the forte of the mining and oil companies? Why do telecommunications companies get subsidized to run phone lines and internet lines to remote areas that, without the government handouts, be non-profitable?

lobbyist making greed happen

All lobbyists can do is bribe and beg... But what the government does gets forced onto you, and you must pay for it

Not the first time it's happened. Lobbyists from the India Tea Company wanted the general public to pay the high taxes caused by Great Brittan's constant wars. That's how the American Colonists ended up with all those weird taxes. We saw what happened then.

Don't know where you're reading your history, but how would it benefit a tea company to want to increase taxes on its own product? Seems to me like increased cost, consumer outrage, and a revolutionary war would be bad for business. *Sips coffee, not tea*

Are you really sure you want to know this? (Hint, you can find this sort of "taxation" throughout any utility bill you have)

*looks at electric bill from 1776* nope. *looks at cable bill from 1776* nope again. Are you sure? I mean I don't think I had utilities 240-ish years ago

Where did capitalism "ALWAYS" end up well? Because the top picture looks like pretty much every red state.

It’s great to live in a “red state” :)

Oh, so you agree :)

Its better because red states dont pay their fair share of the bills? its better because there is no public transportation? its better because in a hurricane you get wiped out and once again need socialist America to bail you out? how exactly is it 'better' or great?

And yet people in blue states like California keep voting for higher taxes and redistribution of wealth. Kinda shows just how dumb liberal democrats really are :)

“Find one where I ever whine”

Read your own post below.

You really don’t get it, do you. No wonder you vote Democrat.

You are the idiots whining about straws...and everything else, find one where i ever whine, about it, I dont whine we pay your bills, just that you idiots live off the blues states money then f**king mock them, f**k you, and then where shirts that you would rather be russian than dem? its you idiots doing the whining about blue states... ftis wrong with you? seriously is there something we should know?

capitalist pay the bills for socialist

This graphic does not include federal spending on military bases. The largest employer in the state of California in the naval base in San Diego.

Correction: the fifth largest employer, not counting Edwards air base. (2015)

Filthy rich ppl don't like socialism. Poor ppl should approve. lol The rich don't mind our social cooperative effort buidling roads and infrastructure from which they succeed massively in America. And they don't mind the corporate welfare, but share the wealth or pay more taxes.. and gtfo ya damned Commie Pinko's lol And malarky. We need to raise their taxes.

Gee all those "socialist" countries seem to do pretty well though.

That's because conservatives have a habit of labeling everyone even slightly to the left of them as pinko commie satanist moslem hippie socialist scum (okay, that was a bit of an exaggeration, but, yeah...)

So how do we define what a "best quality of life" is, and who gets to decide how we measure it? My guess is the same guys that make themselves look good on that chart.

Propaganda. Fake news.

Laughable! Cyprus has a better quality of life than Canada or the United States? Romania? LOL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where-to-be-born_Index#2013_rankings

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/these-countries-have-the-highest-quality-of-life

https://moneyinc.com/20-countries-best-quality-life/

https://www.businessinsider.com/19-countries-with-the-highest-standard-of-life-according-to-the-social-progress-report-2016-6#17-spain-8588-one-of-the-most-popular-holiday-destinations-in-europe-spain-has-a-strong-welfare-system-and-work-life-balance-but-high-youth-unemployment-has-hurt-the-standard-of-life-for-many-of-its-citizens-3

No matter WHO measures it....the US is not top of ANY list.

I’m surprised that Syria isn’t placed ahead of Canada and the United States on THAT list.

Why does that surprise you?

Check out ANY list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where-to-be-born_Index#2013_rankings

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/these-countries-have-the-highest-quality-of-life

https://moneyinc.com/20-countries-best-quality-life/

https://www.businessinsider.com/19-countries-with-the-highest-standard-of-life-according-to-the-social-progress-report-2016-6#17-spain-8588-one-of-the-most-popular-holiday-destinations-in-europe-spain-has-a-strong-welfare-system-and-work-life-balance-but-high-youth-unemployment-has-hurt-the-standard-of-life-for-many-of-its-citizens-3

No matter WHO measures it....the US is not top of ANY list.

This is based on government-provided questionnaires. If you think it's real. GREAT move to Greece. Their economy is doing great. Better yet, move to Romania. I hear their sewer gangs are still a thing.

The 2018 Best Countries rankings, formed in partnership with global marketing communications company Y&R's brand strategy firm, BAV Group, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, are based on a study that surveyed more than 21,000 global citizens from four regions to asses perceptions of 80 countries on 75 different metrics. The Quality of Life subranking is based on an equally weighted average of scores from nine country attributes that relate to quality of life in a country: affordable, a good job market, economically stable, family friendly, income equality, politically stable, safe, well-developed public education system and well-developed public health system. The Quality of Life subranking score had a 17 percent weight in the overall Best Countries ranking.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/quality-of-life-rankings

I'll take my capitalism over their "happiness" and 60% tax rate and shithole railroad apartments any day thank you.

Meaning you are? I'm neither triggered not a racist scumbag. Want to debate with facts? I'll give you a retry

What socialist countries socialism is to each according to his needs to each according to his ability

so your saying that the 27 other countries have a better quality of life but fail to mention they are taxed almost double of the USA Great quality = Big price and you still have fewer rights as well over there Leave our great country alone and move to some other country Socialist commie bastard

Taxes and quality of life are mutually exclusive. To give an example of those countries may have higher taxes on your income but no one asked to pay money for hire education or healthcare or other social safety net. These social programs add to the overall well-being of the society in there for her provide an overall well-being overall higher quality of life. It’s a pretty simple concept.