Is the U.S. spending splurge because Americans think that government should take care of them? No, we are slightly more individualistic than the 80-country average from the World Values Survey Wave 7. But our fiscal deficit 2017-2020 was 4.5% of GDP bigge

Is the U.S. spending splurge because Americans think that government should take care of them? No, we are slightly more individualistic than the 80-country average from the World Values Survey Wave 7. But our fiscal deficit 2017-2020 was 4.5% of GDP bigger than expected. Why?