### Comment:
“Perception” says it all. Public perception is skewed because people are easily tricked/intimidated into thinking their money is being spent well. E.g. in the US, people are afraid to say they don’t support the military. Doesn’t mean the military isn’t the most egregious example of waste and corruption on the planet. 
  
 If a study used more objective measures like comparing the cost of a government project to its private sector counterpart, the results would be different.

### REPLY:
Go ahead and find that for me then before you start moving the goalposts. Apparently in your world, Scandinavian countries are just as bad as Venezuela. Prove it. Prove to me with evidence that these countries are as corrupt as the others.

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