JLH If you compare Federal spending plus state spending to GDP ratios across EU members vs the US we're right in the middle of the pack. One big difference is an extra 1.5% of GDP on the military. If we didn't, Russia might be in Poland by now. The other reason is how much health care costs here. This doesn't really have anything to do with politics, it's the post WW2 world we've inherited. We spend 80% of all biomedical R&D dollars here. Someone has to pay for it and it's not the EU, they have price controls.

JLH If you compare Federal spending plus state spending to GDP ratios across EU members vs the US we're right in the middle of the pack. One big difference is an extra 1.5% of GDP on the military. If we didn't, Russia might be in Poland by now. The other reason is how much health care costs here. This doesn't really have anything to do with politics, it's the post WW2 world we've inherited. We spend 80% of all biomedical R&D dollars here. Someone has to pay for it and it's not the EU, they have price controls.

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