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Everybody wants a government handout. Nobody wants to pay the taxes to fund it.

Licence to create money needed for loans that government awards banks is the ultimate handout.

That's a fairly North American Continent point of view I think.

Not everyone classifies government spending as a handout. Many countries have some sort of "Labour party" that tends to want to have high taxes, and over time such parties get plenty of votes.

Is it? Or is is mainly US? My impression is that Canada is a much more like Europe in this respect, and Mexico doesn't seem aligned with this either?

Canada is pretty much in the middle of Europe and the US in terms of overall tax burden, but still taxes less than pretty much any developed European country besides Switzerland (and Ireland, but Irish GDP is a warped figure).

Mexico taxes significantly less than the US does, the US is closer to other Anglosphere countries than it is to Mexico.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_ta...

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