[Bob Pr.]

Not advocating that for the USA but thought it's an interesting article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazine/03european-t.html?em

 

[Golfgirlrobin]

He kind of lost me once he started with the water metaphor, but my overriding thought while reading this was "Can you imagine how Americans would job this system?"

My second thought was "if they have so much tax money, why can't they get rid of the rats that charge at you every time you get within 20 feet of a canal?" I spent my time in Amsterdam with a bus pass in one hand and a stick to fight off the rats in the other.