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chrisco255
3 months ago
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China is eating the world
Our government doesn't run our economy. The private sector dwarfs the public sector.
baggy_trough
3 months ago
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Over 1/3 is quite a bit. In a sense, we are 1/3 socialist already, and that's just in direct spending, not including the mountain of red tape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...
chrisco255
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It's a fair amount but no not all government spending is automatically "socialist" or even socialistic. Government and socialism are two different things.
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