Friday, May 1

Laissez faire, eh?

FE0429-SIZE-OF-GOV.eps
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*

1 comment:

  1. 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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