[fra]

adventured: what you're missing here is that having other people get free education and healthcare is a benefit to you.

Lots of evidence to support that, delightfully summarized in "The Spirit Level" by Wilkinson and Pickett, among others.

[Joky]

I believe education is "free" till the end of high-school in the US the same way it is in France, the difference starts with College/University. (France has a really nice pre-K system though!)