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CMV: Government spending should be referred to as money spent per person living in the country, not the absolute amount.

Lets take the latest US infrastructure bill as an example: 1 trillion dollars spent. That is an amount I can't really grasp. However if you were to divide it by the US population (330 million) it would come out to be $3030 spent per person living in the country. That's an amount I can actually relate to.

This could also be done state level i.e. state spending divided by state population.

Of course the amount wouldn't be exactly what you pay for it (in taxes) as thats obviously dependent on your income etc. but as a ballpark estimate it would still be way more relatable than the absolute amount.

Another reason against it would be that the US also taxes citizens living abroad which are therefore also paying for the spending but they won't be included when dividing by the population. However that would still be a small amount. And also this is specific to the US as other countries generally don't do that.
gpt
The idea seems good on its own, but how would you mandate it? News agencies often change the way they present numbers depending on whether they want to make it seem big or not, wouldn't they also choose whether to use this method or not based on what they want to make you think?