Americans and their weird, weird attitude to taxes has always been completely baffling to me and my social democratic tax-friendly mind. It makes absolutely no sense to me that you would, for example, choose to finance your health care through insurance companies; and I consider it deeply elitist and evil to send the rich kids to private school and let the poor fend for themselves with a suboptimal education. And don't get me started on the fees for universities.
But after a week and a bit in California, I think I have acquired a deeper insight into the American mind and soul.
