You are talking about socialism. The crap about government having to have its name on the ownership document for it to be socialism allows the loophole the liberal wants so he can work towards 100% taxation and wealth redistribution without having to acknowledge the socialism he desires. 100% taxation and 100% wealth distribution and it’s not socialism, because the government doesn’t have its name on the ownership document.
If it walks like wealth confiscation and wealth distribution, it is wealth confiscation and wealth distribution, regardless of what you want to call it.
Just because the US has become corrupted by socialism does not mean socialism is justifiable. You can never justify using somebody, until they get used up, for your personal benefit. It’s an evil mentality that views other people as resources for themselves. It’s nothing less than plantation values. The liberals wants to turn the US into a plantation nation, so he can live well on other people’s money.
Sorry, Europe is an enslaver continent. Their hewing to socialism is why Europe is being removed from the face of the earth. They have been judged by God and found wanting. If they don’t repent, they will be no more and replaced by somebody else.
As I have said, the US has its own huge loopholes of “socialism”. If you are going to call country A “socialist” and country B less socialist, then you have to take these things into account. And there is an extensive literature out there on just that.
Socialism is bad. But thats not the point here.
We were, IIRC, discussing medical costs.