Posted by Paula Tyler on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Under: Political


 

As you can see Non-Defense spending took a huge spike and has been on an upward climb since the 1960's. You can see the defense spending spiked during the Vietnam war, and except for a small rise during the Reagan administration has mostly fallen, even though we have heroes in harms way. The true amount may not be known, as many other budgets assume some defense spending.




This really doesn't need much explaining, it pretty much says it all - Can you say entitlements?



Subsidies can be used for everything from getting Farmers NOT to grow crops to energy subsidies for nuclear and coal, but it also would include tax incentives for having babies to buying a home. *



Except for Defense and Interest - We could shave a lot off of this Pie!



Please Note this is in TRILLIONS of Dollars and the Date Range is only 10 years. I would say Big Government is eating us alive.

We need to address this and soon. The Healthcare Bill alone will increase the size of Government to 159 new agencies and commissions just to oversee this monster.

Cato Institute for charts and much more information
Capitolgainsandgames for more information on subsidies*