First, that 0.7 % of the GDP beats out most of the world in total dollars/euro amounts spent.
Second, no country comes near the percent of GDP in total dollars spent by private citizens on world charities.
Third, such a comparison assumes taxes to be the only right way to help the world.
Fourth, the amounts spent in increasing the economic pie for, say, Mexico, or for China with the NAFTA and global trade becoming more free ---- such trade basicly
dwarfs anything vaunted foreign aid accomplishes.
In all of the above categories, no other country comes even close to the largesse spread around and that largesse does not of course imply any noble motive, but rather money is money and the economic pie is made much larger by all of the above categories than the often mis-appropriated and embezzled and much vaunted tax paid foreign aid.
Even a lot of private organizations look on with dismay how the leaders of other countries get their hands on charity.
But those private organizations of many stripes, religions, ideologies in United States simply dwarfs the total dollars spent and simply dwarfs the percent of any other country's governmental expenditures as a part of their GDP.
