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"Consumes"? How the fuck does that work? Do those people working at the IRS or for the Forest Service simply eat all of the money being spent on those departmen
by evgen 4y ago
"Consumes"? How the fuck does that work? Do those people working at the IRS or for the Forest Service simply eat all of the money being spent on those departments? Does the department of education make a big pile of cash each quarter and engage in pagan rituals while they burn their allotted percentage of GDP?
- WalterBright 4y agoConsuming it by spending it on unproductive things that nobody would spend their own money on. Governments are infamous for misallocation of funds to unproductive things. Businesses can't do that, or they go out of business.
- lukas099 4y agoWhere is the number of 40% from? Personally, I think that living in an environment where free markets can actually exist and we can live in relative safety and security is worth far more than I pay in taxes.
- WalterBright 4y agohttps://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-spending-to-gdp https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-spendi...
- lukas099 4y agoAnd how big do you think GDP would be if we didn't have functioning law and order, defense, infrastructure, education....?