^Good, so you accept that State debt is important. Lets go back to the Wiki dispute, which I assume you have now skim-read:
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a special formula for the US as opposed to other countries and only count public federal debt which gives off a much lower percentage.
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So, the figures you quoted in haste, without reading the background material, actually account for public debt in an entirely different way than the countries you are making comparison with.