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by leetcrew 2766 days ago
not sure exactly why you're being downvoted, but you probably should justify why "percent of GDP spent on social welfare" is the relevant comparison here. the US is in the top quartile of OECD countries for GDP per capita, and has over twice the GDP per capita of the lowest quartile countries. if they spent the same percentage of GDP as the other countries, they would be spending vastly more per citizen.