User Fee America

Thanks to neoliberalism's twisted "philosophy" to justify unbridled greed and parasitism of the tiny elite at the expense of everybody else, the "public good" isn't even mentioned anymore though it is absolutely crucial for a stable society.

Reich's paragraph sums up the decline of the United States in the last paragraph:

We’re losing public goods available to all, supported by the tax payments of all and especially the better-off. In its place we have private goods available to the very rich, supported by the rest of us.