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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright
If you broke the United States down into states you would find that many states are right up there with the European socialist paradises. If you compared the EU as a whole to the US, I'm willing to bet the elasticity is WAY better in the US. I tried finding this stat for the EU as a whole but it doesn't appear to exist. There are probably also states in the US where the elasticity is comparable to some former Soviet Bloc Eastern European countries with a litany of ongoing problems. It's almost as if comparing ethnically pure countries with a population of 5 million to the center of global immigration with a population of 330 million+ spread over an entire continent isn't a valid comparison...
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Exactly, that comparison is garbage.
Plus, too many Americans at the bottom aren't even trying. I see them every day--my patients, who are practically all lower income. One after another after another able bodied people who want me to fill disability benefit and handicapped placard paperwork for them even though they truly don't qualify. I still fill them out--
every single time.
I'm guessing I don't have any exposure to this population, though, and I live in a "bubble" right?
