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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by jimmaswell on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:42PM (#18243601)
Taxes are utilized notoriously inefficiently in the US. It's not unreasonable to want them to be lowered and used more efficiently, or to even simply prefer having less services.
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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by simonbyrne on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:54PM (#18243727)
> Taxes are utilized notoriously inefficiently in the US.

I've wondered about this: is this "conventional wisdom", or are there actual cross-country comparison studies?

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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by jimmaswell on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:35PM (#18244035)
Healthcare spending per capita is a big one.
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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by mywittyname on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:37PM (#18244437)
Gov't spending in this sector is the only efficient form of spending happening.

Insurance companies and hospitals are being as inefficient and wasteful as possible because it makes them more money.

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