DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes

Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by bitcoin_anon on Sunday February 23, 2025 @12:14PM (#43151027)

> 1. There are claims that federal spending is out of control. How do you square that with the fact that spending as a percentage of GDP is only slightly elevated compared to the historical average going back to at least the 1970s, with the main deviation in the past few years coming from the after-effects of the pandemic? [1]

Why do you choose 1970 as a baseline? Federal spending is absolutely out of control when compared to, say 1913, as a baseline.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by frankish on Sunday February 23, 2025 @02:27PM (#43152302)

Exactly this IMO. Federal government is way too big. I would be more sympathetic if we moved most of these concerns to a more local level of government. Trying to have a one-size-fits-all approach for the whole country is what causes so much polarization. Let the ideas be run as experiments more locally, so that people can more easily vote with their feet and wallets. I have never actually gotten a chance to vote how my tax dollars are used.

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