Can only edit once? Forgot to add limited emergency medical services

Don't believe those haters at all, the NHS is quite possibly the best U.K political decision of the 20th Century.

I'm sure it played a major part in the finding below:

It's worth noting that the NHS only subsidises dentist's charges in the U.K rather than covering the entire cost.

Yes, the NHS is a bit beaurocratic at times (it's the largest employer in Europe) and yes the service is below what the private sector  offers, but for one who cannot afford private medical care it is fantastic.

As for our taxes, as I'm in full time education I can only speak about indirect taxes and I wouldn't say they are too high at all.  TBH I don't care too much how much of my money is taken via tax as long as I don't think that it is squandered.

The government are spenders? The population isn't far behind, the problem lies in that everyone and their dog can take up huge loans that they have no way of paying back, having an entire country with people in a serious deficit is not good. Everyone has loans but in most countries there are very strict policies around them and here in Norway you can pretty much forget loaning more than three times your gross income for any purposes and you are required by law to either place a guarantee via a co-signer or through other value (car loans with full finance are often given with the house/apartment as security, given that you have made enough down payments to have actual surpluss market value versus debt) and it will now become mandatory to have a certain percentage paid off in advance before the loan is granted (i.e; you have to make a direct down payment of 8-10% of the total purchase price before the bank will let you buy a home). On top of this, the banks here are also compelled by law to set interest rate guarantees, to ensure that the interest rates don't fluctuate too much over a given perido of time and it is also perfectly normal to bind the interest rate for a decade or three-to five years on mortgages and car loans.

Yes, the government needs to stop producing incredible deficits but they also need to gain control of banking and finance operation domestically to ensure that not everyone anywhere in any situation can take out huge loans or smaller loans with fierce interest rates. Being able to drive to a gas station and take out a cash loan of up to three times the value of the car with interest rates near 100% is sheer madness however one looks at it imo. And credit cards, people seriously need to reconsider gettind and using credit cards, I know for sure that I never want to own one.

I agree we need to fix Social Security, but we are forgetting what it is (was).

The government was setting up a pension plan for the people. The tens of thousands of dollars the US government has taken from me was because they thought they would do a better job investing it for my retirement. Now they want to just steal that money and give it to those they wish to give it to.

Could you image how up in arms the feds would be if Fidelity Investments did the same thing with your 401K. Let's say instead of investing your 401K, they spent it, and then when it came time to pay, they just did't pay the rich people. The effectively stole there money.

The government would come unglued if private industry did this (as they should), and yet it's ok for them.

You want to fix Social Security? Raise the limit, or kill the program. Don't just take from a group of people because it's convenient.

Fucking crooks.

Sounds reasonable to me, as long as they have it set up properly.