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BTW - I don't think that you understand the scale of the US, how much larger our federal govt is. Ohio, a fairly middling state, is comparable in population to

BTW - I don't think that you understand the scale of the US, how much larger our federal govt is. Ohio, a fairly middling state, is comparable in population to Finland. The EU has 170% of the population of the US. Both together have less people than India. All together I would say that Europe has more government than the US (which is not necessarily a good thing) because of the duplication of function between the member states as well as the central bureaucracy.

anamax 17y ago
> The EU has 170% of the population of the US. Yes, but the EU govt hasn't ramped up to anywhere near the scope of the US govt. > Both together have less people than India. Yup, and its national govt is fairly limited. (It's growing, but the amount of money that it controls is fairly small by US standards.)