Inconvenient Truth: Wealthy Countries Have Big Governments

Consider the following list of countries with small governments:

Somalia

Sudan

Yemen

Chad

Central Congo Republic

Mauritania

Mali

Liberia

Senegal

Countries with big governments?
All Western Europe
The United States
Israel
New Zealand

List Of Countries With Tax Revenue As Percentage Of GDP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_as_percentage_of_GDP

Most wealthy countries also happen to have big governments. "Are we supposed to believe that rich countries are rich in spite of the fact that they all have big governments? Should we believe that government is a parasite that always, without fail, finds a host in the body politic of every single country that reaches first-world status? Or should we conclude that big government is a necessary ingredient for countries to get rich? ... Public goods boost economic activity. Governments that are more effectively able to tax and regulate economic activity... are able to provide more public goods, and therefore to outgrow countries with weak states. In other words, big government is good." Bloomberg View

Somalia

America?

Or another day in Somalia?

Cliven Bundy and his militia of heavily armed scofflaws were conservative heroes.

G.K. Chesterton: "The Anarchy of The Rich"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/gk-chesterton-anarchy-of-rich.html