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US Government spending as a % of GDP: 37.6% Switzerland government spending as a % of GDP: 34% https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm https
by harryh 8y ago
US Government spending as a % of GDP: 37.6%
Switzerland government spending as a % of GDP: 34%
https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm
Strip out the military (where the US spends quite a bit maintaining global hegemony), and the Swiss have a bigger government than the US.
- nickik 8y agoYes, and Switzerland and US both are pretty small. Compare Switzerland to the countries around it. My point was not that Switzerland is a libertarian paradise but rather that it is not true that more democracy makes the government larger.