the usa has lower taxes than other countries but if you include private sector healthcare spending it’s about the same

we spend twice as much as other countries on healthcare if you count the private sector, and more on defense as the next ten biggest militaries combined. if these were run better, we could at least not deficit spend, or choose other priorities like other countries. we have much less social nets than other countries, our welfare is actually pretty meager. we do spend less on taxes in general than others, but not if you count private sector healthcare, and these bloated things are what our default priorities are. Plus we are paying back the mega spending areas of social security and Medicare after decades of borrowing against them, living on borrowed time where now the bill is coming due.  the best way to analyze these things, is through spending for defense and healthcare and taxes, as a percent of our GDP, then compared to other countries