Similarly, although social welfare spending is lower in the US than in the Nordic countries, its budget deficit as a share of national income is much larger. The US spends less in the public sector, but it taxes even less than it spends.
同样，尽管美国社会福利开支比北欧国家更低，其占国民收入一定份额的预算赤字却大得多。美国在公共部门花费更少，但其税收甚至比花费还要低。