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http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=1880_2010&view=1&expand=&units=p&fy=fy10&chart=F0-total&stack=1&size=m&title=US%20Government%20Spendin

• pohl 17y ago
  Regulation and spending are orthogonal concepts. Your link does nothing to address the question.
  • jam 17y ago
    Spending per GDP is the best actual metric I can come up with for visualizing the "size" or "power" of government in society. There's no 1:1 relationship with regulation, but the two are surely correlated. In Rand's writing, government spending is equally detrimental to society - but you are correct that spending itself was not in question.