my connection with the tea party

[kandrathe]

The tax structure in a place like Denmark is indeed less progressive than here. But that is compensated by the fact far more citizens have equal access to many services, including this most important sector of healthcare. That is after all, the whole point of having a social democracy. Here, those who can pay get treated. Those who cannot, either go without or do so but face or at least run the risk of financial ruin and/or hardship. Not so in Denmark. And thats because, once again, profits are out of the picture, as they should be in the healthcare sector

At the risk of distilling down your post to the grist. We cannot afford more services, like universal health care unless we restructure our tax code where the middle and lower classes would pay much more. The rich would end up paying about the same. For example, if you taxed the top 1% of wage earners at 100% of income over $1 million, you'd only raise an additional $78 billion. Barely enough to pay for a few months of the current military expenses in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, let alone add the trillions needed to expand social services.