Brazil has a public sector that is roughly twice the size of Chile’s – total tax revenue is approximately 20% of GDP in the latter and somewhere around 40% (estimates differ) in the former. And social expenditure (again treating pensions as deferred consumption) is also twice as large in Brazil: 16% versus 8% of GDP.
但这并不意味着活动家应该要求不论怎样都要提高税收和公共支出。政府计划的质量能造成很大的不同。巴西的公共部门大约是智利的两倍——总税收收入占智利GDP比例为20%左右，巴西则为40%（各种估算结果不同）。巴西的社会支出（同样将退休金处理为延迟消费）也是智利的两倍，分别占GDP的16%和8%。