As
a young Conservative one thing I often have to deal with is the attitude among
my peers that European society is a beacon of hyper-intellectual enlightenment,
and that Americans are brain-damaged chimps compared to them. Yeah, not so much.
In
a previous article I riffed a list of the European Union’s larger failures that
have stemmed from their whiney pursuit of laziness and entitlement. Still, it’s
tough to argue against the things their societies enjoy: free healthcare, free
education; even free cars in the case of Denmark. Those things would be amazing
for everyone, right? Again, not so much,
but not for the reasons you might think.
Let’s
get the obvious out of the way: the word “free” is subjective in this argument.
The healthcare, the schools and the cars aren’t really free; no one is out
there creating and sustaining these things for no compensation. While it might
be free to the low-income earners, these things are paid for with tax dollars,
which are being paid by the higher earners, and at quite a substantial rate
(remember when I said that there was legislation on the floor of England’s
parliament to raise the highest tax bracket to seventy percent?). That’s a
system that is ultimately unsustainable, and a large contributor to the debt
crisis in the EU......To Read More......
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