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Yeah the comparison doesn't make sense to me. # of people governed is about the same, but without the EU, each of the member states still has a full national go
by gretch 3y ago
Yeah the comparison doesn't make sense to me. # of people governed is about the same, but without the EU, each of the member states still has a full national government that does a lot of the legwork of administrating their country.
USG does more because US state governments are not equipped like EU member national governments.
- foldr 3y agoBut that's the point, right? The EU is a much lighter touch than the US Federal Government, so it's weird that people fixate on the comparably insignificant bureaucracy of the EU rather than the much larger bureaucracies of their national governments.