America will never be a socialist country. [emoji837]
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So just how much of a percentage of the federal budget being devoted to socialistic programs would you consider necessary before you considered America a socialist country.
Here is a page that breaks down the 2018 budget. The article explains that in a budget of 4.407 Trillion USD 62% of that is mandatory spending, totaling 2.739 Trillion USD. It is this mandatory spending that was legislated and obligated to be recurring budgetary line items which covers payments for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
I happen to be of the belief that these three programs are at their very nature socialistic in nature. All three are paid for through federal taxes upon citizens income. The government controls how much is taken out. The government controls what is done with that money while it is being held. The government even gets to determine who has access to the payouts of the money they collect. That pretty much seems to be the definition of socialism.
You may not agree, but
here is is a nice article that breaks down how Social Security works, and comparative ideals of a socialistic philosophy.
In all fairness, not all of that mandatory spending may be going to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Here is an article that says in 2015 those three only accounted for 51% of the budget.
To sum it all up, if you are willing to see Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as socialistic programs, whether the percentage of the budget is 51% or 62% how much more than either of those numbers would the percentage need to rise before you were willing to admit that America was already in many respects a socialistic country? My old math classes taught me anything over 50% was a majority.