For those wondering how we've been doing relative to that 19.5% of GDP, here's a graph: http://carriedaway.blogs.com/carried_away/2005/04/us_government_s.html h

For those wondering how we've been doing relative to that 19.5% of GDP, here's a graph: http://carriedaway.blogs.com/carried_away/2005/04/us_government_s.html http://carriedaway.blogs.com/carried_away/2005/04/us_governm... We probably couldn't lower taxes for a while after spending less than 19.5% of GDP so we could actually pay down the national debt, but I like your plan.