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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: koan who wrote (68051)4/23/2018 2:06:46 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (3) of 360374
 
And how do you think every other western democracy manages to have the entitlement programs?

1 - They don't make it work either. For the most part their promised pensions and government medical insurance and/or direct spending programs will be similarly unaffordable for them as our programs are for us.

2 - On some of these programs the US is more generous. It depends what types of programs your comparing and what countries your comparing.

3 - To the extent that any of them manage to cover them to now better than we do (and some of them are doing much worse), or cover it as well while being more generous, its largely because they have less progressive taxation than the US. Both of us hit the rich but the US taxes the middle class less. The European countries have VATS which hit the middle class (and even to an extent the poor) as well as the wealthy.

I'd consider #1 to be the most important relevant point.
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