That is a meaningless metric on its own. What matters is how much money you have left to spend on things you want to as part of a healthy, happy life. In the

That is a meaningless metric on its own. What matters is how much money you have left to spend on things you want to as part of a healthy, happy life. In the US a lot of things are inefficiently pushed into the private sector, health care being a good example. Taxes + private health care costs in the US are a higher percentage of GDP in the US than in any developed nation yet the results are the worst of the same cohort (OECD). (This isn’t to say that there aren’t things done inefficiently in government that might be better in the private sector. Just saying that single figures are worthless alone).