The taxes are about the same between the two countries. Canada gets healthcare, we get a Roman-style military.
RE: The taxes are about the same between the two countries. Canada gets healthcare, we get a Roman-style military.
So, you recommend a Canadian style universal healthcare for the United States?
The US spends $3.2 Trillion collectively on health care, about 17% of GDP. On the other hand, the US spends about $620 billion on Defense, about 3% of GDP. You could cut whatever amount you wished, so that Americans would have a "Canadian-style military," with no submarines able to go to sea, or the inability to deploy a fully-functional brigade overseas - and that money would not make one jot of difference in the massive, inefficient, super-expensive, proto-fascist health-care system that is Obamacare.