What, did I not stroke your ego just right? Quit grinding your anti-Christian axe.

You are terribly naive. You are young, someday, if your husband works hard he may be the owner of a small company, or at least a manager of one. in fact, it's highly likely he will move up in his rank, not down as the years go by.

And if you get your way, by the time he is making a decent living, you can pay 83% of your income in taxes. Lets see, after years of struggling to make a mere $40,000 a year, that will leave you with a couple bucks to buy groceries, after taxes.

Which by the way, will be appreciated very much by all the bureaucrats and royals who have no other way to support themselves except by convincing people like you that paying enormously high taxes is your honorable civil duty.

I get the impression you would love to have a little microchip implanted in your neck as a collar too.

Tell me something, in your world, when the famers no longer bother to plant their fields because the time and effort do not pay off, does the government come along and force them to the fields with whips and chains too? Or do they simply send fleets of mercenaries to plunder the fields of little countries on other continents? Irish potatoes only go so far. It's no wonder the Irish farmers have a huge drinking problem. The pub is a far better way of life than slavery in the fields. Perhaps you could go to Indonesia or India and set up a sweatshop for children to make rugs for the people of England.

At any rate you are the only person arguing that socialized medicine or socialized anything for that matter, works, if you haven't noticed.