I'm tired of all this socialism. Take driving for example. When I go for a drive, being a rugged individualist, I like to take my own road with me. But every time I do there's one of those damn taxpayer funded, socialist roads in the way. And don't get me started about the police, or the military.
John Lamb sorry to rain on your parade but those are functions of any government, including those which support a capitalist economic system. Socialism is where you take my money in order to pay for your various bills.
Three ways bullshit, Nancy: First, anyone who says they are sorry to rain on the parade is definitely not (in the same way that anything before 'but' in a statement doesn't count). I don't have a car. If you do, I pay for the roads you use. I don't have children. If you do, I pay for their schools. Finally, use the Google machine and research 'socialism'. You'll find your definition sadly sophomoronic.@@katzhunter4473
@Kulak Jack he means social democracy not communism. Also corporations only care what they can make money from. If a problem is not profitable it will be ignored.
Well that's not how socialism is defined. Socialism is an economic system in which the means of production are controlled and regulated by the community as a whole. Social security is merely a way to redistribute income to a certain degree, often used in capitalist systems to offset the ability of capitalists to underpay labour. In a socialist system, social security is not the most important way to fight poverty.
European countries are not "socialist" as such, they are capitalist economies but they are much more fettered by socialist principle in some areas than the United States is, that's all.
But Bill, in speaking this truth, you're assuming most Americans have the intellectual capacity to figure out these oddly paradoxical beliefs many of them seem to have
Bill didn't mention our schools, roads and streets, state universities, police, fire, air traffic control, social services, prisons, and on and on it goes, all types of socialism. Yet, as he says, everyone doesn't like it; what they don't like apparently is the word.
I love the religious video and as an atheist your video makes very good observations. Healthcare should be where we draw the line on capitalism. Our current healthcare system is becoming a cancer within itself!!!
Mate, as a fan of this channel here, you should really more beware of 'talking about a topic you have no clue about'. Go watch "Some More News" - that guy aint even a Socialist but just critical to Capitalism, so he's a good start before you then watch "Socialism for Absolute Beginners" by 'Second Thought'. And THEN you Profit from how that latter channel names his videotitles often in Question-Form so its easier-to-access and you can debunk myths you believe in yourself and answer questions you always had.
Yeah well I'm swedish and I don't know why americans seem to think we are socialists here lol... We even rank higher on the Economic freedom index than the USA. We have a big welfare state though. And the way we collect taxes is that we tax EVERYONE at a high percentage. Everyone from cleaning ladies and garbage collectors to big banks pay high taxes here, 30-50% or more.
It seems a choice. In many European countries the income tax rates are way higher than in the US. If you tax income to 60-70% you can pay for many programs (health, education, etc...) but it seems Americans are not willing to trade a 28% income tax rate for one in the 60s...
For a start the highest tax rate in Europe is 55.9% (Denmark) only the richest pay this not an average persons rate… in the uk the highest rate is 45% for over £125,140 ($156,262.32) for a majority of Americans taxes would not rise that much only for the rich.
This is just completely wrong. Government spending is NOT socialism, socialism is state ownership of the means of production. The Nordic model which he's referring to is CAPITALIST, with high tax rates and lots of welfare. Their markets are actually freer than ours! If you want REAL socialism, Venezuela and colonial Jamestown are examples of ideal socialist societies. Not Sweden or Norway.
"Socialism is state ownership of the means of production." You're being too literal. The government effectively owns YOU and YOUR means of production if it can take the product of your labor (earnings) away from you. And since time is money, and vice-versa, the government owns the time that both workers and businesses put into being productive. I don't know where you got the idea that capitalist countries are supposed to have high rates of taxation and welfare.
There are no Socialist countries on this planet, only states that, through ignorance or damned lies who call themselves Socialist in order to harvest support from the working class.
@@1ex1uger-prank-calls The structural difference between Capitalism and Socialism is not the level of taxation but the extent to which the government interferes with or "plans" the economy. It doesn't matter whether the government nationalizes the means of production as in the Soviet model of Socialism, or merely puts its people into management of companies, sets quotas of production, controls prices and wages as in the Nazi model of Socialism. So whether one calls the unearned benefits the North European countries provide to their citizens "social" or "socialist", the economy of those countries is Capitalist (and Capitalism was what allowed those countries to become so rich as to be able to afford the public spending burden). The effective difference between Capitalism and Socialism is how much room is left and how much reward is allowed for personal initiative as opposed to how much power the government assumes to enforce and block economic activity some bureaucratic body comes to perceive as desirable and undesirable.
I feel like the definition of socialism is pretty amorphous for people in America. Also comparing the U.S. to single European countries is such a misleading, inaccurate, fallacy comparison given that the size of this country is comparable to half of the entire European continent...
America isn’t really a capitalism nor is it socialism. We’re a social democracy meaning that we are capitalist but we have social programs. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, welfare, and other government programs isn’t evil socialism. It’s social programs.
@@steffenjensen422 What dafuq state capitalism is capitalism owned by the state for the benefit of a small class of people who live of the profits from said state owned business's. In other words just another bunch of parasites. GET IT.
Bill Maher was raised in a Catholic family. In case you’re unaware, the Catholic Church has a long history of anti-Semitism, though I don’t think he is bigoted.
Ahhh, yes. When you're not smart enough to argue the points, just resort to anti-semitism. Kinda like when a hockey team doesn't have the skills to put the puck in the net, just start picking fights with the other team and try to beat the shit out of them. That'll teach 'em.
It's time for American to Google Socialism and Communism.
I'm tired of all this socialism. Take driving for example. When I go for a drive, being a rugged individualist, I like to take my own road with me. But every time I do there's one of those damn taxpayer funded, socialist roads in the way. And don't get me started about the police, or the military.
John Lamb sorry to rain on your parade but those are functions of any government, including those which support a capitalist economic system. Socialism is where you take my money in order to pay for your various bills.
Three ways bullshit, Nancy: First, anyone who says they are sorry to rain on the parade is definitely not (in the same way that anything before 'but' in a statement doesn't count). I don't have a car. If you do, I pay for the roads you use. I don't have children. If you do, I pay for their schools. Finally, use the Google machine and research 'socialism'. You'll find your definition sadly sophomoronic.@@katzhunter4473
@@katzhunter4473 so the taxes you paid weren't used by government to build roads? You are a very confused individual
@@katzhunter4473 you're not very well informed,are you?Oh sorry I forgot you're American.
@Kulak Jack he means social democracy not communism. Also corporations only care what they can make money from. If a problem is not profitable it will be ignored.
If you support Social Security then you support socialism, at least to some degree. Did you notice that the word "social" is right in the name?
Well that's not how socialism is defined. Socialism is an economic system in which the means of production are controlled and regulated by the community as a whole. Social security is merely a way to redistribute income to a certain degree, often used in capitalist systems to offset the ability of capitalists to underpay labour. In a socialist system, social security is not the most important way to fight poverty.
European countries are not "socialist" as such, they are capitalist economies but they are much more fettered by socialist principle in some areas than the United States is, that's all.
But Bill, in speaking this truth, you're assuming most Americans have the intellectual capacity to figure out these oddly paradoxical beliefs many of them seem to have
But what we have here in Norway is Welfare capitalism. Marked economy, not Planning economy.
Great example that most Americans/tv comedians, do not understand what socialism is
Bill didn't mention our schools, roads and streets, state universities, police, fire, air traffic control, social services, prisons, and on and on it goes, all types of socialism. Yet, as he says, everyone doesn't like it; what they don't like apparently is the word.
I love the religious video and as an atheist your video makes very good observations. Healthcare should be where we draw the line on capitalism. Our current healthcare system is becoming a cancer within itself!!!
Mate, as a fan of this channel here, you should really more beware of 'talking about a topic you have no clue about'.
Go watch "Some More News" - that guy aint even a Socialist but just critical to Capitalism, so he's a good start before you then watch "Socialism for Absolute Beginners" by 'Second Thought'.
And THEN you Profit from how that latter channel names his videotitles often in Question-Form so its easier-to-access and you can debunk myths you believe in yourself and answer questions you always had.
Yeah well I'm swedish and I don't know why americans seem to think we are socialists here lol...
We even rank higher on the Economic freedom index than the USA.
We have a big welfare state though. And the way we collect taxes is that we tax EVERYONE at a high percentage. Everyone from cleaning ladies and garbage collectors to big banks pay high taxes here, 30-50% or more.
3:53 Is all Bernie Sanders wants for America plus a living wage.
America is a brainwashing land. They have anti union videos on Walmart passjng to their employees, i was like: wahhht?
It's a crazy world.
It seems a choice. In many European countries the income tax rates are way higher than in the US. If you tax income to 60-70% you can pay for many programs (health, education, etc...) but it seems Americans are not willing to trade a 28% income tax rate for one in the 60s...
For a start the highest tax rate in Europe is 55.9% (Denmark) only the richest pay this not an average persons rate… in the uk the highest rate is 45% for over £125,140 ($156,262.32) for a majority of Americans taxes would not rise that much only for the rich.
European Socialism: Also know as *Common Sense Capitalism*
Bill should ask the man in his left, how to make money. Walter surely knows hometown fix the poverty problem.
This is just completely wrong. Government spending is NOT socialism, socialism is state ownership of the means of production. The Nordic model which he's referring to is CAPITALIST, with high tax rates and lots of welfare. Their markets are actually freer than ours! If you want REAL socialism, Venezuela and colonial Jamestown are examples of ideal socialist societies. Not Sweden or Norway.
"Socialism is state ownership of the means of production." You're being too literal. The government effectively owns YOU and YOUR means of production if it can take the product of your labor (earnings) away from you. And since time is money, and vice-versa, the government owns the time that both workers and businesses put into being productive.
I don't know where you got the idea that capitalist countries are supposed to have high rates of taxation and welfare.
Not government ownership of the means of production, but WORKER ownership of the means of production.
There are no Socialist countries on this planet, only states that, through ignorance or damned lies who call themselves Socialist in order to harvest support from the working class.
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The structural difference between Capitalism and Socialism is not the level of taxation but the extent to which the government interferes with or "plans" the economy. It doesn't matter whether the government nationalizes the means of production as in the Soviet model of Socialism, or merely puts its people into management of companies, sets quotas of production, controls prices and wages as in the Nazi model of Socialism.
So whether one calls the unearned benefits the North European countries provide to their citizens "social" or "socialist", the economy of those countries is Capitalist (and Capitalism was what allowed those countries to become so rich as to be able to afford the public spending burden).
The effective difference between Capitalism and Socialism is how much room is left and how much reward is allowed for personal initiative as opposed to how much power the government assumes to enforce and block economic activity some bureaucratic body comes to perceive as desirable and undesirable.
@@petersapsard3463 Bullshit.
went to the dentist and had a tooth pulled today. my cost was 195 bucks. no insurance or government involved. left the house at 11;45 back home 12'35.
I feel like the definition of socialism is pretty amorphous for people in America. Also comparing the U.S. to single European countries is such a misleading, inaccurate, fallacy comparison given that the size of this country is comparable to half of the entire European continent...
America isn’t really a capitalism nor is it socialism. We’re a social democracy meaning that we are capitalist but we have social programs. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, welfare, and other government programs isn’t evil socialism. It’s social programs.
/facepalm
Talking about state capitalism NOT socialism
Dafuq is state capitalism supposed to mean.
Steffen there is this thing called google. Its a great place to find answers for questions :)
@@steffenjensen422 What dafuq state capitalism is capitalism owned by the state for the benefit of a small class of people who live of the profits from said state owned business's. In other words just another bunch of parasites. GET IT.
We’re a social democracy. We’re capitalist but we have social programs.
@@petersapsard3463 That's pure sophist bullshit on your part.
America has socialism for the poor, capitalism for the rich, in Europe we have Socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the poor...
You only get half the story on Socialism here. You get none of the ugly truth here.
People like a guy who disses Americans?
Rich boy jew loves having his own money. Just don't take his.YOU pay or his guilt.
Asshole much?
Bill Maher was raised in a Catholic family. In case you’re unaware, the Catholic Church has a long history of anti-Semitism, though I don’t think he is bigoted.
@@cathywolfe7993 : His mother was from a Jewish family. His dad was Irish Catholic. He was raised in the Catholic faith.
Jew Bill, wrong about everything, again.
Wow, ad-hominem attacks are so convincing.
Ahhh, yes. When you're not smart enough to argue the points, just resort to anti-semitism. Kinda like when a hockey team doesn't have the skills to put the puck in the net, just start picking fights with the other team and try to beat the shit out of them. That'll teach 'em.