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by laurencerowe 3710 days ago
I'm from the UK and now live in California. Income tax rates aren't very different.

As a proportion of GDP, Government spending in the US is only a couple of percentage points lower than the UK. The US actually spends slightly more on public healthcare than the UK, 7.9% vs 7.3%.

Of course healthcare here is so horrifically inefficient that another 8.5% of GDP is spent privately...

http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_STAT