Marginal Revolution:
U.S. government spending as a percentage of GDP is now equal to Canada's and rising, leading one Canadian op-ed writer to crow about Canada's low tax, free market economy. Damn that hurts.*pained groan*
Matt Gaetz says he isn't coming back to Congress
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“I'm still going to be in the fight, but it's going to be from a new
perch,” Gaetz said Friday.
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i wonder if that ultimately begs the question of what size of government would be optimal, taking the long view. if universal health care has been a necessary inevitability, wasn't it stupid of us to put off the painful decision until the time that our health care system was about to hit the rocks and per-patient spending had skyrocketed? if we did it 20-30 years ago, the pain might not have been as acute.
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