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Monday, August 13th, 2012
Another “How Big?” Question: U.S. Federal Spending
Just about everyone and their dog has seen those scary graphs of government spending shooting skyward along an exponential curve. They look like this: This runs from 1913 until 2011 and was retrieved from http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals. In 1913 Federal spending was $715 Million. In 2011 it was $3,603,061 Million ($3.6 TRILLION). However, if you’ve seen my [...]
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Monday, August 13th, 2012
In Perspective, How Big is the U.S. Government?
This is another post in which I’m trying to separate fact from rhetoric for my own sake, and I thought I’d share my results. There are a lot of politicians making promises to shrink “Big Government” in the U.S. What I wanted to know was simply how big has that government actually become. Let me [...]
