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US Budgets

Download Raw Spending Data Series 1792-2016

You can download any of the raw data series used to compile the government spending data in usgovernmentspending.com. You select the data series you want and then copy-paste the tab delimited data from a textbox on this page into your spreadsheet.

Warning: The raw data series typically do not extend the whole length of US history. Check out charts if you want full-length data series.

Download Instructions:

Prepare a suite of data for download by making a selection from one of the dropdown menus below. You can select:

  1. A group of functionally related spending data series
  2. An individual spending data series
You can also remove individual data series that you don’t want.

Select Functional Data Series Group: Select a group of data series to download (you can add individual data series later):

Add Individual Data Series: Select Spending Data Series to add to download (you can add more later):

Change Data Units: You can download data in raw format (i.e., in the units used in the database for each item, or in $ billion, $ million, or percent of GDP.

raw
$ billion
$ million
percent GDP

Select Fiscal Year: You can select the budget for which you want to download estimated federal spending.

Copy and Paste: When you have created the dataset you want then just copy the tab-delimited text in the textbox below (click cursor in text box, then press ctrl-A then press ctrl-C) and paste it into your spreadsheet.

Here is a formatted version of the data you have selected.You can remove a data series by selecting “out” in the dropdown for each data series.

YearGDP(752) Federal litigative and judicial activities(754) Criminal justice assistance(E25) Current Operations - Judicial and Legal Services(F25) Construction - Judicial and Legal Services(G25) Other Capital Outlay - Judicial and Legal Services
1962585.71110000
1963617.81240000
1964663.61310000
1965719.11460000
1966787.71531000
1967832.41656000
1968909.81788000
1969984.420229000
19701038.324565000
19711126.8287233000
19721237.9347380000
19731382.3390624000
19741499.5426770000
19751637.7550853000
19761824.6697921000
19772030.1842847000
19782293.8943729000
19792562.21130710000
19802788.11347656000
19813126.81491473000
19823253.21517294000
19833534.61627167000
19843930.91825136000
19854217.52064150000
19864460.12176181000
19874736.42482250000
19885100.42880352000
19895482.13255455000
19905800.53577477000
19915992.14352663000
19926342.3505479515831600397785229572
19936667.4533682216477600270786244108
19947085.2546985917283500292902300790
19957414.7611599818448900370714348500
19967838.56067149419547000462478444343
19978270.466317283320440700848321356724
19988727.026682357522587700598414387292
19999286.867427444624558500383165374651
20009884.177762490926207100436405388656
2001102188298515528228800534590436620
200210572.49137576830040500735944433672
200311067.89085512630992300722288399972
200411788.996851125132115900544382394065
200512554.59641460434052400595379412642
200613310.910051476835927200646089418397
200713969.310954434537750300469519477031
200814270.511781385440466000490239476299
200914014.812083461641667700562221624042
201014551.8130734849000
201115079.6134557483000
201215812.5137075788000
201316752.4136585929000
201417782.2135285471000
201518804.1135225064000
201619790.5137996744000

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State Finances Update for FY 2010

On December 14, 2011 the US Census Bureau released data on state finances for FY 2010 here, including spending and revenue for each individual state and for all states combined.

On December 27, 2011 we updated state and local spending and revenue data as follows:

  1. We replaced "guesstimated" state spending and revenue data for FY2010 using the data from the Census Bureau.
  2. We replaced "guesstimated" local spending and revenue data for FY 2010 with estimates for each spending and revenue category using the trends in state finances between FY 2009 and FY 2010.
  3. We replaced "guesstimated" state revenue data for FY 2011 with data from the Census Bureau's quarterly state tax summary here.
  4. We replaced "guesstimated" local revenue data for FY 2011 with estimates for each category using trends for each category of state revenue between FY 2010 and FY 2011.
  5. We replaced "guesstimated" state and local spending and revenue for FY 2012 thru FY2017 with new guesstimates based on the latest Census Bureau data for FY 2010 state finances and FY 2011 quarterly tax data.
The Census Bureau expects to release local spending and revenue data for FY 2010 in July 2012.

Highlights: State spending on Welfare was up from a "guesstimated" $164 billion to $237 billion.  Business and Other Revenue was up from a "guesstimated" $174 billion to $456 billion.  This reflects the $289 billion profit reported on state pension plans for FY 2010, a partial recovery from the FY 2009 loss of $524 billion.

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Mutual Aid

In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society

Education

“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State

Democratic Capitalism

Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

Government Expenditure

The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America