The U.S. is a more socialist society than Hong Kong. Should America be more like Hong Kong?

Question

Hong Kong is more capitalist than the U.S. with less reliance on government, low taxation and very few purely public institutions.

Is the American system inferior? Or does America's more socialistic approach make more sense?

Answer 1

In general too much control is a bad thing, and too little control is a bad thing. I think our system in general strikes a nice balance. A completely laissez faire system produces great wealth, but also an extremely high concentration of that wealth at the top end. Those on the bottom are screwed. Also, it is a more chaotic system, with feast one day, and famine the next. Command economies have the opposite problem, everybody gets a piece of the pie, but the pie is so much smaller in the first place that no one gets that much.

Answer 2

America should be more like America, as well as less socialist.

We experiment here. The socialism didn't work.

Welfare is under constant revision to reduce it.
Public School is struggling to meet the demands of its many detractors.
Unions are shrinking, and fighting battles that they would have won quickly a couple of decades ago.
All our socialism experiments are failing, so the socialists are coming out in droves trying to push for more.

I'm a democrat, not a socialist, yet more and more socialists are coming into government under the democrat banner.

It's wrong.

Answer 3

I live there from 2001-2003 ans it is the most crowded unfriendliest high cost of living I have ever seen. It is now communist and let me tell you.Big Bother watches you. Everything is overpriced and made in poor condition.It is run by China now so it is not the same as it was before 2000.

Answer 4

If we enacted the Fair Tax and voted everyone of our bozos out of office and enforced term limits, thereby not allowing them enough time to be bought and paid for, we might stand a chance.

I just found this site about Hong Kong. It's rather simplistic, but interesting.

Answer 5

I'd prefer not to return to the industrial age, and the times of the railroad and oil barons. If conservatives knew the history of those times they'd be against it too, but they don't.