According to Wikipedia, the total government budget in the US is around $20k per capita[0] which is on par with some very rich European countries like Germany a

According to Wikipedia, the total government budget in the US is around $20k per capita[0] which is on par with some very rich European countries like Germany and France. The problem in the US is extreme waste/inefficiency and unequal access, not lack of spending. By the way, neoliberalism is the dominant ideology in most countries now, not just the US. But neoliberalism doesn’t mean “no state spending”; that would be an exaggerated caricature. What you’re describing is more like libertarianism (in the US sense of the term) which indeed is rather unique to the US, but not the dominant ideology. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_budget_per_capita https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governm...