America, the land of the rent-seeking, parasitic middlemen.
These tapeworms are effectively printing their own money, donate part of the booty to the DNC, and the DNC promotes politicians who support the tapeworms.
It's an unconscionable racket.
I remember when an office visit was $4 and .16 sales tax. People could also make payments or provide services and goods.
In 1977 I was in the south and my son was sick on a Sunday. My SIL took me to an old country doctor who had Sunday hours. Growing up in the west, I never saw segregation and was shocked to see a Black waiting room and a white waiting room in 1977!! I asked my SIL what was up and why they let him get away with the segregated rooms and she said that people only paid what they could afford and took chickens and fresh garden produce as pay and had Sunday hours for working people. He knew most of them by name and all their families and just accepted that the doctor never changed things.