SPENDING
SOURCES
US CENSUS BUREAU
Time Series Chart of US Government Spending
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$ billion
$ billion (2000)
percent GDP Stack
Not-stack Fed Gov.
Xfer State Local Total [+] Pensions [+] Health Care [+] Education [+] Defense [+] Welfare [+] Protection [+] Transportation [+] General Government [+] Other Spending [+] Interest [+] Balance [+] Total Spending Spending key: — using federal budget
If you’d like to create your own custom chart of spending data you should use the table above to make your selections.
- Select the year range: Select the start year and the end year you want by selecting the years you want in the two year dropdown boxes.
- Select spending items: Just click the checkbox for the spending item (up to 5 allowed at once) you want to display and view the chart. Click the checkbox to unselect spending items you don’t want.
- Select units: You can select the display in billions of nominal (i.e. inflated) dollars, billions of real (i.e. year 2000) dollars, or as percent of GDP.
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Below is a formatted version of the data displayed in the chart.
| Year | Total Spending-total |
| 1993 | 2421.0 |
| 1994 | 2507.1 |
| 1995 | 2634.9 |
| 1996 | 2719.4 |
| 1997 | 2813.6 |
| 1998 | 2923.4 |
| 1999 | 3053.5 |
| 2000 | 3240.2 |
| 2001 | 3434.0 |
| 2002 | 3697.8 |
| 2003 | 3930.6 |
| 2004 | 4127.7 |
| 2005 | 4401.4 |
| 2006 | 4691.7 |
| 2007 | 4823.1 |
| 2008 | 5110.5 |
| 2009 | 5376.2 |
| 2010 | 5453.1 |
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
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
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
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