[thesimon]

>Why do Americans not look at public provision, paid for via your tax system?

Because raising taxes is bad, obviously one day you'll be big and don't want to pay health care for all the people down there. And of course it's a slippery slope. Today it's health care, tomorrow it's minimum wage and the day after you find yourself in a Gulag /s

Just look at how hard republican states tried to push against Medicaid.

[darkhorn]

You mean that the European Union is heading to Gulags?

[maxxxxx]

He is being facetious.

[pjc50]

Yes, but some US politicians have literally tried to argue that way ("death panels " etc)