The US is near the top of that list ahead of (for example) the UK and France.
Also, this is an arbitrary all-in-one measurement of "government effectiveness", not something that in any way states "Many US government schemes are in fact elaborate money laundering".
How much more could they possibly tax people before fixing root causes instead of symptoms?
>Citation needed
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/wb_government_effe...