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I think you could make the metric useful by filtering out Social Security and Medicare which come from different revenue sources then the General Fund. At that
by dkhenry 9y ago
I think you could make the metric useful by filtering out Social Security and Medicare which come from different revenue sources then the General Fund. At that point a direct population comparison becomes much more useful
- catawbasam 9y agoWhy would you ignore 2 of the largest spending categories?
- dkhenry 9y agotwo reasons. 1. Their funding doesn't come out of discretionary spending, they self fund through individual taxes. 2. Their outlays go mainly to older people who have a tendency to group in specific states, and due to the size of the expenditure relative to the rest of the budget even a small bias in where that money goes overshadows any real variance in discretionary spending