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To: A Longer Name

Urban legend.

The graph you provided is bogus. Do you really believe that total taxes (federal AND all others) in USA are only 25%?

USA GDP is above 11 trillion. Just the FEDERAL budget is about 25% of it.

54 posted on 11/27/2006 11:01:14 AM PST by A. Pole (Russian proverb: "All are not cooks that walk with long knives")

To: A. Pole

As a percentage of GDP, the USA is down the list. Only Mexico, Japan, and Korea are lower.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/TaxFacts/TFDB/TFTemplate.cfm?Docid=307&Topic2id=95

59 posted on 11/27/2006 11:31:38 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie

To: A. Pole

You have looked closely at the chart, have you? Total government spending in the US is 39%, still lower than that of Sweden's by almost 20%.

64 posted on 11/27/2006 12:41:19 PM PST by A Longer Name

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