Socialism has been tested in France for 45 years. It does not work. Don't let it take root in the USA. Resist. The survival of the Western world depends on it. I could write a book about why we left France 12 years ago. We had a fairy tale life: beautiful home in Mougins, kids in English school, my career thriving. We gave it all up to start over. The French have been “moutonisés” 🐑— effectively silenced and increasingly addicted to small government handouts. You get paid to study, to live in your home, to have children, to raise children as a single parent, to send them back to school after summer, to help once a child turns 20, to be unemployed, to extend benefits after two years on unemployment, to take a break, to have income, to top up your salary, to have a nanny, to have a helper at home… and on and on. (A non-exhaustive list in comment) And what happens when the subsidies can’t keep up with inflation? When dreams die under bureaucracy? When someone lights the match because there aren’t enough handouts? This is reality in France today. Don't let it come to America.