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03 Jul 2014, 10:39 pm
NobodyKnows wrote:
The_Walrus wrote:
NobodyKnows wrote:
Minnesota Public Radio makes a big deal of presenting themselves as intellectual, but it took a Canadian guest in an unrelated MPR debate to point out that Europe doesn't have a universal health care system either. (If you listen to public radio anywhere in the US, you probably listen to MPR content.)
Well yes, that's because Europe isn't a country.
I'm pretty aware of that. (I have family in continental Europe.) But as a loose federation, the EU is comparable to the early United States. Its revenue is based on payments from member states rather than direct taxing authority - the same system that existed in the US under the Articles of Confederation. It lacks a military, which the Continental Congress had, but it has free trade, free travel (including for work and residence) and something similar to the Bill of Rights:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_o ... pean_Union
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Several European countries do, though increasingly they exclude immigrants.
They're also going through the same states' rights struggle that the US has been engaged in for so many years. Some people want to centralize power in Brussels, and others don't. The trade-offs are pretty much the same. You might gain stability, but you become liable for other states' screw-ups.
The Articles of Confederation? Then the American far right ought to be tickled pink over them!
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