This implies there is no cost of government provided services in the real
world.
No. That's a big DUH!
Of course there are costs to government services, but consider this.
How much of your income is disposable income? In countries with free
democratic socialist governments like Sweden or Germany, taxes may by
40-50% of their income. However that means that they have fully paid
health insurance, long vacations, child care, sick leave, pensions, with
50-60% of their income remaining as disposable income. They also have
almost universal inexpensive broadband in most of western Europe. In the
UK, you get FREE broadband as part of your mobile phone contract! Does
AT&T or Verizon do this? For under $50/mo including 600 min?
That's more services than we have in the United States--for less. Here
you gets what you pay for. That means that the anti-gummint sentiment
means much lower taxes, with much higher costs for broadband, health
insurance, child care, etc., etc.
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