[dbtc]

The wealthiest people and corporations pay proportionally a tiny amount of tax and then they get subsidized and bailed out by the middling middle class.

Canada doesn't have a ridiculous semiprivate health industry that could probably deliver free healthcare to a smaller state with what it spends on lobbying alone.

I think a deeper truth is that America has a split personality: partly it wants to be a grownup nation, and partly it wants to still play Wild West.