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Hey now, let’s not burst his utopic bubble.
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Theory holds so far.

Everything government involvement touches gets more expensive. See healthcare, college tuition, student loan debt as some easy examples.

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Two of those are the same thing and both are much cheaper in countries other than the US where the government is much more involved
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That’s odd because spend on all of those things per capita is consistently lower with better outcomes where they’re socialized.
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> See healthcare

Medicare is cheaper that US private insurance:

* https://www.kff.org/medicare/how-much-more-than-medicare-do-...

Also:

> A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.

* https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage...

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