US, Japan, and Switzerland seem less socialist than Scandinavia, Austria, and France by standard measures, right?

Questionnaire is a proxy measure, but it's better proxy than some random blog rant.

Here are some obvious things that might reasonably correlate with trust, but don't seem to: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_as_percentage_of_GDP * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality