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mondrian | 5 months ago

Comparing it to GDP doesn’t seem to make sense. Maybe to government revenue.

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AnimalMuppet|5 months ago

No, the claim was that it has outgrown the private sector. GDP is in fact a good proxy for that claim.

Outgrowing government revenue is a different claim.

neffy|5 months ago

No, it does make sense. Most of the purported growth in government spending is just using raw figures, and not correcting for either inflation or monetary expansion. It is a convenient mistake.