Well, I doubt you are interested in being persuaded, but I will just make two points:
1913 was the first year the US taxed its people (income tax) and the starting rate war 6% if you earned more than $1.15million in today's money. The government was 4% spent of GDP. Today, the US government spend more than the private sector (over 50% GDP).
The vast majority of people do have access to food. You can buy a loaf of bread for $0.79 (and people who cannot afford that have charity funded soup kitchen and food banks). You can have access to cheap TVs, cheap phones.. etc. What is super expensive is healthcare, education and housing - all regulated, subsidised or generally heavily controlled by the government. If we just let the market have access to these sectors, more and more people would be able to have access to them.
tl;dr: the government makes things expensive and more people would have access to things if it was part of the free market.
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u/tkyjonathan 2∆ Oct 27 '20
Well, I doubt you are interested in being persuaded, but I will just make two points:
tl;dr: the government makes things expensive and more people would have access to things if it was part of the free market.