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Originally Posted by pigman
Move to europe and get free health care.
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Yeah. Move to Europe and pay twice as much in taxes. Have 1/5th the opportunities.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
America has always been about fewer government benefits but vastly greater economic opportunity and social mobility. Something the liberal leaches who want to live off the system might not understand.
Go look at wealth in other countries, especially Europe, over 70% of wealth is frequently the
product of birth or inheritance. In Europe, unless you're born into vasts amounts of money the likeliness you will become a self-made millionaire is WAY slimmer than what it is here.
It's the end result of the free market being overrun by government bureaucrats.
In America, every city is filled with immigrants who came to the United States with nothing and now run thriving businesses that earn millions.
Go read the book 'The Millionaire Next Door', statistically, 80% of American millionaires are entirely
self-made. A large percentage of them immigrants who came here with nothing. The land of opportunity wasn't something that was just made up for no reason. Good luck getting a business loan or finding a venture capitalists to fund a new business in Europe,.
It's the ONLY reason Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerburg and hundreds of others started life out in this country with nothing only to become self made billionaires. The owners of Microsoft, Linux, Apple, Youtube, Google; you fucking name it, were born here with an idea, that's all.