Comments by "T WE" (@TWE_2000) on "Would Bernie Have Won?" video.

  1. Sure if you're visiting Western or Nordic Europe and your income is in the bottom 30-40th percentile. The median American home is twice the size of the European one and the US median income income is higher than practically every country in Europe. Even when you adjust for cost of living, welfare programs, and taxes, every country in Europe has a larger percent of their population under the American poverty line than the US itself, with the exception of Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Norway. If you're poor it's usually better to live in parts of western and Northern Europe. If you're middle class and above, life is usually better in the US. Which is why there is net migration TOWARDS the US from the EU, and its the case for every single country in Europe. Skilled and educated Europeans know they make much more in the US than in their own country. Also pretty much all the welfare programs you listed exist in the US, they're just at the state level. Some states decide to have expensive public subsidized programs and some states don't. Outside of India the largest public education university system in the world is California's UC/CSU system. Everything has tradeoffs. European countries tend to favor tradeoffs that favor the poorest part of their population at the cost of those who don't need to depend on government assistance. Meanwhile the US tradeoffs are generally more favorable for those who don't require public subsidized aid, and less favorable to those who do.
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