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Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by harryh on Sunday October 14, 2018 @07:39PM (#18216288)
US Government spending as a % of GDP: 37.6%

Switzerland government spending as a % of GDP: 34%

https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm

Strip out the military (where the US spends quite a bit maintaining global hegemony), and the Swiss have a bigger government than the US.

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Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by nickik on Sunday October 14, 2018 @08:20PM (#18216452)
Yes, and Switzerland and US both are pretty small. Compare Switzerland to the countries around it.

My point was not that Switzerland is a libertarian paradise but rather that it is not true that more democracy makes the government larger.

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