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Total taxation is at 26% of GDP in the U.S., 34% in much of the rest of the developed world.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxes...

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is that including health care costs? I don't think so from what my expat friends tell me

Are you sure Tax Policy Center can be trusted?

Those numbers seem very low for Ireland. I'm willing to be wrong but something seems very off here.

Ireland is a notorious tax haven.

That is so, I think probably taxation as a measure of GDP is too dubious a measure for connecting up with a normal person's experience of taxation, in the ideal world they should be related but evidently the devil is in the detail.

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