We are Number One, Especially Our Centibillionaires

As the world’s greatest democracy and freest country, the U.S. being number one in many areas should come as no surprise. We lead the world by a wide margin in military spending. At the same time, we have the world’s larger prison population.

The U.S. is unquestionably number one at paying more per person for medical coverage than people living in any other country. What makes this fact impressive is that we are far from being number one in life expectancy!

Some of our fellow citizens...