Now, what comes next is not a dismissal of the points you brought up, because these issues you raise are legitimate, or facets of a larger problem.
. . We have one of the lowest tax rates on the rich in the world,
This is a problem, but the problem is not a tax issue in as much as its a problem due to the fact of corporate personhood that was created in America.
You see; try and "tax the rich" and the rich will send in the lawyers and lobbyists and ensure that the loopholes are written so that the rich that you WANT to tax will be exempt. Instead you wind up taxing the upper-middle class.
the stingiest safety net,
I think you meant among the strongest... But reductions in this are a greater economic issue resulting ultimately from those international free trade agreements that put American workers in competition with Chinese slave factories where there are suicide nets installed.
the most archaic private health care system,
This is a result of insurance companies influencing the cost of procedures to te point where in many cases Americans pay more than twice as much on many medications as Canadian neighbors (who have their own HC issues).
Next, this also has to do with pharmaceutical companies working to make doctoring patients with chemicals that address symptoms rather than addressing root causes of these diseases.
It might be prudent to look at all the reasons that overall Americans are amongst the most unhealthy populations...
and the least regulation of industry?
The root here is again corporate personhood and the lobbyists that have grown up with that system where, now the biggest corporations control more wealth than many nations...
Sounds like tea partiers and libertarians have gotten what they wanted and that's why the economy is failing. You seem to have it totally backwards
This statement is logically absurd...
- non- sequitar tea parties and libertarians do not have the control to have caused these problems yet they are to blame for the result?
- strawman: tp&l's do not WANT to see the country fail as much as they are pointing out the unsustainability of current policies and programs.
There's also the false causation fallacy, in that premise a and b are not a cause of the result... If anything they are parallel concepts.