Is it true that Americans are to this day afraid of socialism?

[DonFerrari]

JRPGfan said:

DonFerrari said:

Governments are inherintanly inneficient and giving stuff for free usually is underappreciated and inflated demand, so it usually makes for a lot of waste money. With tickets government keep only the very basic national sovereign, judicial system and infraestructure. School and Health aren't managed by government, they basically transfer some sort of wealth (coupons) but the hospitals and schools are private and people can choose where they want to use so that can improve competition among schools. Of course that also need to very well defined to avoid entering the problems of guaranteed money to universities inflating prices and similar for the health cost in USA.

However the world has proven its the most effecient way of doing things?
Since the 1 country in the world basically where they dont use that system, things are much more expensive, and overall the service is worse.

Quick examples. When landlines were owned and managed by government a new line costed about as much as a car to buy, took over 6 month to install and calls also costed a fortune, no wonder it was like 1-5% of the population had phones in their houses. Months after the privatization of the service you could have a line installed in like a week, for 1% of the cost perhaps, and we quickly gone for almost 100% houses having phones. Today with smartphones we almost have 2 lines per person.