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What a terrible chart. By overlaying rather than stacking the areas it looks like almost all federal expenditures are now "entitlements"! Here's a stacked area
by nicwolff 9y ago
What a terrible chart. By overlaying rather than stacking the areas it looks like almost all federal expenditures are now "entitlements"! Here's a stacked area graph since 1962, which makes clear that we've basically traded military spending for health care for old and disabled people:
http://www.painting-with-numbers.com/download/document/184/170208+Federal+Area+Graph+%232.jpg http://www.painting-with-numbers.com/download/document/184/1...
- carsongross 9y agoBut most federal outlays are entitlements. Breaking it out by entitlement type doesn't change that fact. Military spending presumably includes space/rocket related R&D. And the total as a percentage of GDP has gone up extensively, which a stacked graph doesn't show.