Socialism in America

Here’s a reminder that many Americans tend to think of socialism in black and white terms; they fail to realize that there are dozens of extremely valuable services that every one of us receives from government (see below).

Of course, ignorance like this is not uniformly distributed around the country.  Arkansas ranks 47th in education in the United States, so it should come as no surprise that their thinking on this subject is not particularly nuanced.

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All Americans receive a bounty of valuable services that are paid for by their tax dollars:

Infrastructure, police, fire fighting, criminal justice, national defense, public education, labor laws, auto and food safety standards, air traffic control, TSA, libraries, emergency medical care, environmental regulation, social security, Medicare, the National Archives, national parks, bank regulations and deposit insurance, copyright and patent laws, federal dams to provide electrical power, flood control, the Weather Service, the Federal Housing Authority, consulates and embassies, FEMA, veterans affairs, public water systems, monitoring of all international cargo, NASA, border protection, and the National Institutes of Health.