When is humor no longer funny?

[Jester]

Wikipedia lists EU488 thousand million for Germany's taxes (which from the way it reads includes local, and state taxes). So depending on how that gets split up, 12billion for the federal portion could be correct.

I don't have any statistics on that one, but I really, really doubt the federal government in Germany spends only a percent and a half of total state revenues. If so, they have a "federal" government utterly unlike the US', and therefore makes for a meaningless comparison. But again, I doubt it.

-Jester