It is interesting isn’t it?
I knew an American who lived and married in Norway. The taxes did not bother him at all and he owned a business. He considered it well run and good value for tax provided services. It is socialism though but in a good way?
The Democrats would try to claim it is. But the taxes we pay for (once) first class roads, airports and the like are actually an example of private enterprise delegating a job to government by paying high taxes for roads, gasoline and airports.
And the reality is that by allowing liberals a say in how they are built and operated, ours has gone from best in the world a couple of generations ago to "meh" today.
I first set foot in Japan's Haneda airport in 1977. It was then a series of low cost concrete buildings with shuttle buses and long schleps to get from the international to domestic terminal. LAX looked modern by comparison.
When I flew out of Haneda in December of last year, it was state of the art, a cross between a high class shopping mall and food court with museum quality exhibitions. And LAX was frankly worse than it was in 1977, and worse than Tokyo Haneda back then. LAX had a distinct 3rd world feel to it lacking in the 1977 version.