curb your enthusiasm. [applause] by the way, the impression larry david does of you is spectacular and uncan any. some day you may also have somebody poke fun at you. got to work on it, though. all i need is a bunch of left wing comedy writers to hold on. i was in the middle of making a point. it s a long point, ted of the we re running out of time here. bernie likes to glory fie socialism, but if you look at the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever seen, it s the american free enterprise system. [applause] there is a reason millions of people risk their lives to come here. you know, he talks about poverty. yes, we have people who are suffering in this country, but it s worth noting that in the united states per cap at that income in the united states is over five times greater than the world average, and it s 50% greater than europe. there s a reason why my dad
in denmark my guess is, plooes correct me if i m wrong probably the per cap at that cost of health care is half of what it is in the united states. is that a good guess. approximately, yes. so the point is they are able to run a high quality healthcare system, probably better than ours at half of the cost because it s a public healthcare system. but to answer to your point, and it s a fair point, nothing is for free. so i believe in a kind of society that s different from ted s. i want to see all of our people, the young people, the old, the poor, the working class, be able to get the education they need, the health care they need, the job training they need. does it cost money to do that? it does. but i believe at the end of the day that is the kind of nation that the american people would like to see us become. senator cruz. we just witnessed a very important moment in this debate, which is that bernie admitted that he wants to raise every one s taxes. not just the rich. the
office. i m not. so i believe, yes, that when we re paying twice as much per cap at that as the people in denmark or the people in canada, i happen to believe that hell care is a human right and that every man, woman and child should have the right to hell care as an american citizen. senator sanders, i just want to ask a follow-up because to be clear danish citizens pay the highest tax rate of all developed nations. united states on had that list ranks 32nd. denmark number one. do you think americans are ready to pay taxes like that? if we can have sensible discussions like this, yeah, i think they will be. here is the point. if you re an american watching this, listening to senator cruz, oh, my god, bernie sanders want to raise my taxes, but let me also tell you what he s not telling you is we re going to do away with your private health insurance premium. maybe you re a family of four today on an individual insurance account and you re paying 15,
it certainly didn t help his life. there is a formula to the news too. every night we have the largest drug bust, and then we go from the largest drug bust to the kingpin headquarters which is a doublewide trailer. there is a formula, but it is crazy. you know what is crazy is you talk to people in-law enforcement and they agree. who is against it? it is a generational thing and politicians are afraid to lose votes because people in their 60s and 70s go, not on my watch. i saw what the kids did on the happy juice in the 1970s. i saw the movies they made. we are at a tipping point and that will be colorado. it is on the ballot in colorado. it is to regulate marijuana like alcohol. alcohol alcohol, the highest percentage of pot smokers on a per cap paw tau basis than any other state in the country. is that true? yes. and six years ago they vote