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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by yellowapple on Sunday February 23, 2025 @10:00PM (#43155410)
> 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?

Pretty sure one of the core arguments behind the drive to slash federal spending is the belief that federal spending has been out of control since long before the 1970s.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by starspangled on Sunday February 23, 2025 @10:09PM (#43155461)
Government expenditure to GDP is up on the 70s anyway, and not just because of a covid outlier, it was well above the 70s rates in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 10s (i.e, before covid expenditure).
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