> And even if you take into account the price of college, health care and everything, you'll get to about the same amount but the whole point in the US system is that you do NOT have to pay for other people, cause who needs solidarity in a society.

You seem to be angrily agreeing with the person you replied to.

Paying money to the government or a private monopolies that are heavily, and often bizarrely, regulated by the government is basically comparable.

Any sense that you "do NOT have to pay for other people" is mostly fictional.