Comparing US State GDPs with countries.

[SamuelRSmith]

Kantor said:

disolitude said:

lol...that was pretty fun. USA is a GDP beast.

Its a shame that the national debt is now bigger than the GDP for a whole year. Basically USA and every citizen has to work for a whole year for free to pay it off...

Here is a fun fear mongering site - http://www.usdebtclock.org/

But USA is not as bad as some other countries, like Japan or Greece...

Your public spending is $3.5 trillion?!

That's $10,000 per capita.

Britain's public spending is about £8500, or $13,400.

You're nearly as high as us.

I'm beginning to understand the Tea Party's popularity. We have to charge 61% top-rate tax to make up for our spending...

A table you might find interesting:

Source: http://www.adamsmith.org/tax-freedom-day/

Basically, this year, the average worker will have to work until May 30th before he's paid off the tax man, 3 days longer than last year (the extra three days come from the VAT increase).