Episode 52: Why Does Government Keep Expanding?
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Social Spending in the United States Over the Last 50 Years
How much have we spent on social programming in the last 50 years? This becomes kind of sticky because there's no line item in the budget that says social spending. If you put it all together, you're talking about somewhere between $30 trillion total spending and $50 trillion total spending from 1967 to the present.
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