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Originally Posted by MattyC
The fact that other countries with comparable world status, do it makes it unreasonable to call it "ridiculous".
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No. This is nonsense. America has a particular budget structure that involves annual expenditures of about 4 trillion dollars. It is gargantuan. You can't just overhaul it. It is not a matter of saying "this other country which operates completely differently politically, economically, budgetarily and a dozen other things has X, so we can have X. Git 'er done". This betrays a complete lack of understanding of how a change like this could be implemented and funded, particularly given the involvement of the states themselves. It is a total pipe dream.
You literally might as well suggest that Canada's parliamentary democracy works better than the US political system, so they should just scrap congress and the US senate and the executive and become like us.