re: #10 danarchy
Canada’s federal income taxes look to be lower than ours. I suppose they figure if they are going to be in a socialist country it may as well be an efficient one ;)
Our population is ten times theirs; our military budget is 35 times theirs. Think that could have something to do with it?
To put it another way, our military budget is 4.7% of GDP; theirs is 1.4%.