Gov. Shutdown?

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. . . when we are collecting significantly less taxes than typical throughout our history.

You're only talking about recent history? Look back to the founding of the country and early 1800s to get a different picture (and where the tax revenue was coming from).

medical spending is unsustainable and unlikely to change. For-profit medical care will be the nail in the coffin of the American economy.

Agreed that for-profit medical care is an issue (so is health insurance, just about everything about malpractice law, etc.)

I look forward to emigrating to a country with high taxes and socialized medicine. This is the driving force behind getting my degree.

Um, what? If that's sarcasm, wow. If it's not, double wow.