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Re: A peculiar notion
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- Subject: Re: A peculiar notion
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- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 02:13:21 -0400
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"Central government spending had
soared from less than 2 percent of the economy's total
output to well over 20 percent in 1865, approximately
what the central government spends today.
"It is hard to decide from which angle that statistic
is more astonishing: that government spending rose
from such infinitesimal lows to today's heights in four
years, or that today federal authorities regularly spend
during peacetime as much as they did during the
country's most devastating war." -- Jeffrey Rogers
Hummel