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NotPhil · 4673 days ago · link · · parent · post: Libertarians: Only now, at the end, do you understand...
- ... we ... have built a government so expensive and so massive ...
I'm afraid I couldn't make it all the way through that press release, so I can't tell what the senator is comparing the U.S. government to when he claims it's unusually expensive and massive. According to the CIA World Factbook, our federal expenditures per capita is 40th among countries, and our federal spending per $GDP ranks 153rd. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_bud_exp_pergdp-economy...
If you do a mapping between the % federal spending and % debt, you'll notice that a lot of the countries that are higher up on that list also aren't in the best economic shape right now. Though just discussing the statistics is troublesome because a lot haven't been updated in the past decade.
But I suppose we're straying away from the spirit of the original article, and I'm not really a trained economist, so my ability to make useful sense of that information is fairly limited. :)