The Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl calculates that Sen. Sanders’s promises would add $97.5 trillion to spending over a decade, taking total annual US government spending to around 70 percent of GDP and more than doubling the size of the federal government. That’s far higher than France’s current 57 percent (itself the highest in Europe).
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