Reply #38: In terms of regulations [View All]

[The2ndWheel]

If the corporations are getting the money with no strings, it won't work. They have to pay a price to get the money.

Everyone has to pay that price though. We could all hunt and gather for own food for example. The price we pay for not having to do that is that we don't know what is in our food, don't know where the food comes from, don't have to see how it's made, etc. We just go to the store, give them money that was earned doing whatever it is that we do instead, and we have food. If we didn't have to pay a price for that, it wouldn't function the way it does. That price might be sitting in a cubicle for 40 years. That price might be living in debt. That price might be health related. The list could be quite long.

Even the countries that do provide those goods and services for their citizens, the people do pay a price for it. The bill might not come to the table just yet, but they will have to pay for it when it does.

It's all just give and get. It becomes much more complicated in a system of 300 million people, with different cultures, and backgrounds, and this and that. Usually when we're talking about how European countries provide for their citizens, they're much smaller countries, geographically and population-wise. Most of the citizens are from the same culture. Then again, you look at some African countries, and they're the same size geographically and population-wise as some European countries, and some of those nations are a mess. Then you have to go through the various histories, and see who conquered who, and which central governments were established, how they were established, etc. Just look at America as another example. It wouldn't exist without genocide and slavery. The current reality we live in never would've allowed America to form into a nation. Then you have to look at how the current reality we live in came to be. Who defeated who in what war, and that impacts what gets paid for, who pays for it, etc.

I just don't know if it comes down to lets just tax everyone to pay for everything. Too many variables to existence for it to be that easy.