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Most developed European countries have a tax to GDP ratio 10-15% higher than the US.

Fiscally conservative right wing parties in those countries typically run on a platform of at most reducing that by 3-5%.

If you then take what they'd do to military spending (at most 1/2 or 1/4 what the US spends per capita), social services (maybe a bit less spending, but not dismantling it), the state's regulatory role, fuel taxes etc. I don't think this is a far-fetched assertion.




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