18% is better. The US Is a business... People produce and the gubment is overhead that keeps the building clean, provides security, keeps the parking lot paved and such... NO business can survive on overheads as high as ours. No country can survive and ours probably won’t anyway.
We need to outsource much of what government does and get government out of most of what it does. It can be handled better on the local level.
The government keeps the building clean and provides security? What?