Mr Khan said:
People deserve a certain modicum of dignity (or the lower rungs on Marslow's Hierarchy of Needs): namely health, food, and shelter. It behooves the whole of society also if those who are unable to participate in society are made able to participate (and also fulfills another Need), and these Needs are superior to the "right of a man to the sweat of his own brow." Those who are able to give should give, those who are in need should receive. Now the how of all this is, of course, the tricky part, but there is little doubt that this course of action is *right,* save by those who hold unfeasibly extreme views of property rights. |
The problem is... everyone in ethe first world has maslows needs met on the most basic level.
Starvation just isn't a thing stataistically. Longe term Homelesness research generally shows it as a case of either A) People wanting to be off the grid. B) Mental Insanity.
And France has a universal healthcare system.
France's main issue is that government spending is 56% of GDP.... and that's the more conservative estimate.
As for what they spend this budget on... I dunno, can't speak french but i can show you a good graph of it.
http://voila-le-travail.data-projet.com/budget2012/#ancre
Spending being higher then 50% of GDP is just all kinds of problematic when you think about it.
Because government spending has to = non goverment spending taxes + Deficit.
To have over half your GDP be Government spending.... balancing a budget is impossible without cuts. Just mathmaticlly, unless you tap into wealth...
Which only really helps short short term.
Thoughts on America aside... raising the French tax rates is mathmatically a pointless endevaor. What's needed is massive cuts.
