Keep hearing US gov can't do anything because it spends everything on military. Yes, spending ~17% of your budget (~$700B / $4T) on weapons is madness, but US also collects only 16.5% of GDP in taxes. About 1/3 of many EU countries. If US matched, military would be just 6%.
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Leaving this here for other people: Tax revenue of all levels of government of the US (red) vs OECD average (blue) https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-revenue.htm …pic.twitter.com/465GXJlTef
11:00 PM - 19 Feb 2020
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