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I don't think this is about how much money in taxes the state collects. I think the average tax revenue per citizen is higher for the US than for, let's say, Fi

by nnq 14y ago

I don't think this is about how much money in taxes the state collects. I think the average tax revenue per citizen is higher for the US than for, let's say, Finland (please correct me if I'm wrong). It might be about how this money are distributed to education vs healthcare vs army vs ... But my hunch is that it's not even this, it's about how the system spends the money and not about how much money (for healthcare it's definitely not, as I don't think anyone spends more than the US on average per citizen, but for education I really don't know anything about the figures, that's one of the reason I've asked this...).

wattson12 14y ago
according to http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/background/numbers/international.cfm http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/background/numb..., the US has one of the lowest tax rates, while scandinavian countries are all towards the high end of the list There is definitely an issue of how much money is distributed to welfare / infrastructure / education etc compared to military but the lower tax rate means there is less to spend to begin with (per capita at least)