As it happens I am an excellent reader. I just don't agree with you. Which I am entitled to.

Your argument that the insurance companies in the US pay for the health care is also fallacious. When it is in fact the citizens who pay for health insurance who actually pay for the health care. It is also hard to believe that most people only pay 50-58 USD for health insurance a month without any sources. Wired.com write in 2007 that the average cost per year for health insurance is $7,982 (or 665 USD per month) (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/09/health-insuranc/). Of course this is what your employer would pay, which in essence is just simply subtracted from your original paycheck.

Actually you mentioned health care first. "That means that over the course of your life, you pay much, MUCH more for education and health care than people do in a country (such as the US, until Obama destroys the country) where you pay for your own education and medical treatment."

And how is it that you know what I did or didn't read?

When did this become a discussion about health care. This is a discussion about putting a special tax on students. Which i think is ridiculous.

If you still think it's cheaper and better to have private health care, enjoy the wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States#Health_care_spending).

And, again. By free, I mean free to me (at this point in time). Free in the sense that someone else is paying for it (which is pretty much what free means).

And I must disagree with you that the US uses less money on health care than, for example, Norway. Statistics show that the US uses more money than any other country on health care (year 2000), while it still lags behind many countries when it comes to life expectancy (http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php).

And by "free" i mean someone else paid for it, and I don't have to pay for it.

Everybody pays VAT and the wealth tax is only applicable for people with very high wealth.

In general though the taxes in Norway are very manageable. Income tax is zero for income below 40 000 kr. For a student who works during the summer and winter breaks this limit is usually not reached. Also the income levels for low wage jobs is fairly high in Norway. For example an uneducated kindergarten assistant makes 119 NOK/hour (21 USD).

In a time such as ours. Where so many people are loosing their jobs. And most of the people who lose their jobs have no education. Why then would your want to tax people trying to get an education when you know how much more tax a person with an education is going to pay than a person without an eduction.

In Norway for instance education is free. Yes FREE. We have excellent universities. For instance, Oslo University ranks at 101 at topuniversities.com. Not only though is it free to study, but the government pays you around 15000 NOK for every semester you complete (for full time students) (2 semesters a year). And not only that, but they give your a further 30000 NOK in loans (per semester) that are interest free until 1 year after you complete your studies.

The way the US treats it's people still puzzles me. Surely putting a strain on people who already have little money to live for just sounds like greed to me.

Germany has private health care. Dental care is not covered in Norway.

Just some examples. I'm not an expert so I can't think of any more.

That's why many countries have public health care. It's just simply fairer and better.