Captialism vs Socialism

Thank you for the correct. Time do burst your bubble, America is still living under Reaganomics. The fact is, the deregulation of business, such as the financial sector, led to the crony capitalism of today, which you describe. As for your poll; I do not need any poll. If you have posited a flawed poll, why do I have to posit another poll to trump that flawed one? That is not how debates work. Instead, I can critique it and point out the errs it makes. My critique of it is that it is purely subjective. If you were living in the Great Depression, you would also say it "is hard to open a business" because of the shitty economic atmosphere. The reason why Europe's economy is shitty right now is because of the Euro; they have combined their monetary policy with no combined political nor fiscal policy and they need a re-distributive mechanism. Believe me, Europe is doing much worse than the USA right now because of what I have posited. As per your critique to my poll about your argument being solely conducted in the Neoliberal Reagonomics; it does not apply, our current system is that of which you argue for. This crony capitalism is a symptom of reagonomics. Now, you asked me to account for 3 things: 1) This is easy; it is fallacious to suggest that the U.S.A cannot scale up the program. You must keep this in mind, universal health care costs are equal to X + person. So since the U.S.A is big, that would seem astronomical; however, the USA aslo has a massive tax base due to its big population. So Denmark, a small country of 5 million (I think), provides healthcare to all of its residents through taxes. Are you suggesting that the U.S. could not do the same thing? It can easily do it. Instead of providing all the subsidies to the impoverished, instead, make it free to everyone and raise the taxes a bit. I am sure people would rather pay $6,000 more in taxes that $10,000.00 in private insurance. (I could be wrong, Americans could be so butt hurt that they would rather pay private companies more) 2) Europe does not rely on American power to protect our ideas. We had these ideas first and implemented them prior to American hegemony. It is fallacious to suggest that we cannot do this again. Moreover, why does the U.S have to choose over its military or a healthcare system? The U.S would save money on healthcare. Also, there are plenty of ways to cut the budget: Americans could reduce the incarceration rate, America could get rid of your welfare bureaucracy and put a living wage, Americans could STOP INVADING other countries, etc. How much money would America have saved if there was no Iraq invasion? ISIL came from the power vacuum after Iraq... 3) You are right, crime rate is from a multitude of factors. But inequality is a root cause of conflict. I am not going to argue with you via competition because I believe competition is a good thing. As for your other argument; America became great because of their army first and foremost. Then, after WW2 with the creation of the Bretton Woods, the US created a world order that benefited them by placing them as the world surplus leader. When Reagen took office he reversed this and make America the worlds vacuum cleaner. Capitalism has assisted America, but not your capitalism. The thing is, capitalism creates such great wealth, but also such great inequality. You need regulation to assist with that inequality. To compare European countries GDP is silly. You must look at their GDP per capita. The U.S.A. has a population that a tad over 5 times that of France, of course the GDP will be much larger. Moreover, due to your status of worlds vacuum cleaner, everyone invests into wall street. What do you expect? As for America being a leader? Yes a military leader, but America is not a leader that we will follow in terms of social issues. America's current status is abysmal.