>Do you have any reason to believe that higher taxes and spending will lead to better outcomes, or higher net societal welfare?
Not the parent, but how about all of Western Europe?
As much as economics wants to tout itself as a science, when confronted with real world examples of what works, tested in real countries over the past 75 years, it just retreats into some dressed-up version of American Exceptionalism to explain the failing of its own prescriptions.
Not the parent, but how about all of Western Europe?
As much as economics wants to tout itself as a science, when confronted with real world examples of what works, tested in real countries over the past 75 years, it just retreats into some dressed-up version of American Exceptionalism to explain the failing of its own prescriptions.