[pjc50]

> A person can think that the country should tax its citizens to protect them

Ah, so you are in favour of universal socialised health care!

(/joking, mostly. But I feel that protecting citizens only from other humans but not from the far more deadly problems of disease and ill-health is a very limited view. If the US really believed in the inherent superiority of the private model, it would use it for its troops. No medevac if you've not paid your premiums!)