Well in Norway, you pay a gajillion Euros for a small bottle of water. Just tax the heck out of everything. 40 to 50 percent of your gross income goes to the government. That's a backwards society.Prisons are supposed to rehabilitate. I don't think the situation in Norway would be frowned upon as much in the US if we didn't have such an ass backwards society where we're one of the only 1st world countries with no universal healthcare, this stupid drug war, and billions allocated to war and military.
Look at your paycheck, cut the gross amount in half. Would you be okay with that?