European leaders are, if nothing else, consistently wrong about what government should be doing with the people’s money.
For over 75 years, the governments of Europe have been committed to the idea that governments should be confiscating tax money to build unsustainable and grossly incompetent welfare states that mismanage economies, provide substandard services, and erode individual freedom. It hasn’t worked out too well for their economies, which have been stagnant for the past couple of decades, leaving the average European less well off than their peers in the United States.
They built that welfare state off the backs of the US taxpayer as much as their own. During the Cold War, while European powers relied on American military power, they at least contributed mightily to their own defense, and Americans were happy to help our allies against the evil…
