People Ask Americans If These 44 Things Are Actually True In Real Life And Get Surprising Answers

While I'm sure a significant number of people oppose it because they don't want to pay for other people's health care, but I believe many of them oppose it because they don't trust the government to make their health care decisions. I don't see how it could be much worse than having insurance companies do it, but that's just me.

IT has been calculated that the average health insurance premiums in the US equal about $7000 a year. Then it was calculated that single payer healthcare would increase taxes to each person about $3000 a year. I guess the average American is so bad at math they do not realize that 3000 is less than half of 7000.

This is basically wage slavery, or serfdom, re-enacted. It's quite sad to see a wealthy country revert like this.

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I am going to get downvoted for this answer, since most people would agree with the OP. Even though it is the OP and (all the people who downvote me) who do not understand how taxes work. 97% of ALL federal taxes dollars the government takes in the US is paid by the top 50% of population. Of this, the top 25% pay 87% percent of all tax dollars, and the top 10% pay 72%. (Citation - https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-income-tax-data-2025/). This means assuming federal taxes are used to pay for single payer healthcare for all, the top 50% of tax payers will pay for health care for everyone (assuming the distribution of taxes remains roughly the same). Universal health care is more efficient, which will lower health care costs per person, but it will be nowhere close to 50%. For comparison, the total administrative costs that insurance companies can spend is capped at 15% by law. Therefore, after efficiency savings, half the population will pay more for health care (likely somewhere between 50% to 90% more), while half the population would get free heath care. In insurance, everyone has to pay in an equal amount. This is why the statement "For those that are against universal healthcare because they don't want to be paying for other people's treatment" is exactly correct

I know many people who avoid medical care because of the cost.

It varies state to state. I've mostly lived in places with no sales tax and I am always angry when I visit states that do this. And you never know what things are going to be taxed at what rate. Absolute clown show

In Manitoba, we're taxed Provincial sales tax (7%) and General sales tax (5%) of the total bill, and there are tax exempted products, such has bus fare, milk and children's clothing. But that's only the general sales tax. The provincial sales tax may still be present. Since I suck at math, I just add on an extra few or several dollars when I'm adding up my cart. The more expensive the bill, the more tax you pay on it.

Ridiculous

Where I live in the US, sales tax is typically around $0.075. If you are keeping track of the price of every item in your cart then it isn't hard to figure out if need be.

I remember this as a child in Canada. I'm grateful to be in the UK now. The price on the label is what you pay.

We have the system in rural Australia (not urban) where the number is the meters from the road start divided by 10, odd on left, even on right. Helps emergency services find rural addresses easily (if too many driveways, they just bag the next number). You can get into the thousands very easily!

It can depend on how long the street is or how many times it is broken up, but 5 digit numbers are not entirely uncommon especially in the cities and along interstates and highways.

Flame_MadeByHumans is mostly incorrect. In certain large cities where the streets are numbered like that, yes. But very few cities are so orderly. But it is fairly common for the streets to over at the next hundred when there are regularly spaced cross-streets, so you can guesstimate how many blocks 4210 is from 3210.

I live in a subdivision in PA, the house numbers go well into the 1000's. No numbers are repeated on any of the streets within it, hence the ridiculously high numbers.

Before all the internet map stuff being available, I delivered pizzas for a while as a teenager. Even when the streets aren't numbered, you can figure out where a house is based on the number and direction. So a town starts numbering based on East and West of Main Street, then someone living at 2346 West Blueberry Street, lives on Blueberry Street...23 blocks West of Main Street. Most US towns and cities even from the 1800s are laid out in grids. This does not necessarily work in the oldest states on the East Coast. (So Virginia and Massachusetts might have towns that don't work like this)

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So many young Americans have stories about busted teen parties and how they escaped ... or not. In my day, the police just said, "Party's over. Go home."

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Yep. My bff and I were mildly famous in our small high school because we had a huge party that got busted and kids were jumping out all of the windows and running down the alley with cases of beer 🤦🏽‍♀️

It was more common in the past than now. Fewer parties now.

It was a different time (1970s), but the police were directing traffic for people leaving the largest keg party I attended. It was in some abandoned gravel pits and featured a live band (gasoline generator for power), plenty of beer and a motorcycle gang providing security. The pits are now a large community in Northern Virginia called "Kingstowne." I'm not on FB, but there is a group there called "Friends of the Hayfield Pits." We also used to ride motocross there 😀

Oh, it was a rite of passage in the 70s, which is why it was later portrayed in movies. Police would break up parties, but no one I ever knew ever got arrested for underage drinking. Cops weren’t sneaky about their arrival, so a lot of kids ran. I think it was a bit of a sport for both sides. Today, they take it way more seriously.

Well there are a lot of men who drive pickups for purely ego reasons. They don't need the truck for work or recreation but it makes them feel like BMOCs.