Part 1
You're a blind-from-birth person trying to argue that a 20/20 sighted person's description of a sunset is wrong.
Your side's constant insistence on relying on faith in garbage data to "win" arguments and penchant for projecting your personal faults onto others is embarrassing. The latest example you offer is how you believe Mankiw shows we are 4th in the world in amount of taxes paid.
If you actually READ his words in that post, he says 1.) he only did the calculations on a few countries ("Here are the results for some of the largest developed nations" - notice the word "SOME", oh lord of literacy??), 2.) he goes out of his way to note that his formula is fairly meaningless in general ("This post has been more controversial than I expected. I am surprised because I did not say much here. I merely presented an identity and some data, which illustrated international differences in a novel [and, I thought, interesting] way."), and 3.) the entire absurd direction to which you've now morphed Mankiw's post to be a sweeping statement of cost of government includes NO consideration of cost of living, defense budget priorities or needs, nor any other influences to overall costs incurred in delivering government services.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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