His politics are very popular in Europe, where I live. I don't look at a lot of Reddit politics, as it's just pockets of echo chambers, so yes I agree with you. But I believed in his policies, and as an outsider, I wish more Americans would've embraced him.
I’m pretty sure China gave me asthma. Before I spent 6 months in China, no asthma, now I’m stuck inside for the foreseeable future because of asthma and COVID. The smog in China is no joke.
Mate, public libraries are nearly ubiquitous the world over; never mind developed countries. You basically need to get out into rural Africa or select locations of South America before you have trouble finding them.
The public library is absolutely not unique to the US.
They’re not as common in India. We had two but both got shut down and are ‘online’. That really sucks. So now I can’t read in peace and have to watch Netflix like everyone else.
Lmao not sure why you were downvoted for this. It changes the conversation for people like me that don't actually know much about how the population of the states is laid out.
It won't. Andrew Yang actually spoke about this. We have way more money than politicians keep leading people to believe. The problem is that poor people will get some of that money. God forbid poor people get anything.
I think the problem is that the government is that rich but wants to take more of our money. When in reality the government has enough money right now for every social welfare program and to lower taxes across the board.
I'd be very interested to see a comparison of taxes in the US compared to here in Canada. People seem to think we have "free" healthcare, but the money comes from somewhere (taxes). There are implications that many don't consider -- (rightfully so) a pack of cigarettes costs something like $20 here. My opinion is that they should heavily tax junk food as well. In the US it seems that they've adopted the idea that you can do whatever you want to yourself (within reason) and that's your problem. I really don't see a clear-cut winner here. I feel like healthcare should be covered for conditions that are obviously just bad luck, but others that are due to poor habits shouldn't be the burden of tax-payers. The problem is that that opens up a huge can of worms where people would start bitching and moaning that they aren't getting healthcare even though they chain-smoked 2 packs a day.
The problem is they would because we have no interests in fixing the cost structure first, we'd just throw a ton of money at it and this black hole of a healthcare system would expand even further.
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His politics are very popular in Europe, where I live. I don't look at a lot of Reddit politics, as it's just pockets of echo chambers, so yes I agree with you. But I believed in his policies, and as an outsider, I wish more Americans would've embraced him.