March 14, 2002
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Hmmm. Big Government is...Bigger?
This chart shows the trends of total federal spending as a share of the economy (measured by national income) over the past 50 years, with the total broken down into 4 components: Defense, Social (sum social security, Medicare, Medicaid/health, welfare income) and net Debt Interest, and Other (meaning all items not covered in the first 3 components, which is balance of spending, incl. such items as Dept. of Energy, IRS, State Dept., etc.).
Click for the source (which I don't yet know well enough to vouch for)
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at March 14, 2002 03:27 PM | Technorati inbound links