Yinztopia

Looooooook. Europeans pay more taxes. They also go to jail less and kill fewer brown people. There are, like, tradeoffs, yo. Plainly anarchy and European social democracy are at odds, and yet, for the gazillionth time, the Euros have managed fifty-ish years of relative peace and prosperity and are, on the whole, healthier and happier than Americans. Okay, Charles Krauthammer, you're sort of correct to say that ballooning public debt will eventually demand higher taxation in order to maintain services. 'Cause, seriously, we could be living in a hellhole like this: