• Tiral
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    24 hours ago

    Healthcare isn’t free. It’s funded by your insanely high taxes. Unless you’re broke and jobless you’re paying for it. The US has free education, wifi is a whopping $35, air conditioning, a massive military, cheaper gas, vastly more robust infrastructure…

    So that makes me wonder what are you paying insane taxes in Europe for? Free wifi and healthcare? Your power grid can’t support AC even if people had them, you don’t have a huge road network, I guess you could equate the good train network to US roads. Shit military by comparison.

    It’s not even a pissing match between countries. I know where the bulk of the US taxes go even if I don’t like it all. France has state healthcare that you pay for, free wifi, and a nice subsidized train network.

    I think Trump is a scammy POS and then some, but if you ask me someone is robbing you blind in France and waving “free healthcare” flag over your face going you don’t realize someone is pocketing that tax money.

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      8 hours ago

      This comment smells so much of US of A citizen stereotype that i wonder if it’s irony

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      9 hours ago

      Best not look at how much the US spends on health care with our taxes.

      (spoiler:, it’s nearly $2 trillion/year, France is something like $325 billion euro)

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      9 hours ago

      I hate to see people lose their life savings and go bankrupt due to medical bills, or whose insurance companies deny treatment until loved ones die, but if it’s gotta happen, let’s hope it happens to someone like you who has no empathy for those who suffer the same currently.

      And why not suffer a disability that makes you unable to work too and then you can see what living on permanent disability is like and how little the government cares for you. If it’s gonna happen, I’ll hope it happens to someone like yourself.

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      16 hours ago

      I’m French. Our healthcare is awesome, and honestly I wish we paid more taxes, so we could make public transport and trains free as well !

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      21 hours ago

      US health insurance is more expensive than European taxes and it doesn’t even cover everything.

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      24 hours ago

      US has free education

      Ahahahahahahahaha