You might want to check your numbers. The recent norm has been closer
to 30%, with marginal rates closer to 40%, exclusive of additional
mandated spending.
How is asking for a quantified answer baiting?
Matthew
On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Snyder, Mark (IT-EI) wrote:
Quantify? Who cares what I think is too-little, enough or too-
much? I
am not a member of the house or senate. I'm not sure I qualify as your
big-government proponent. I personally am comfortable with the 15-25%
of GDP that is the approximate norm in recent history. I do not
include
the rescue package, though, because that does not fit with the rest of
recent history.
Do you try to bait everyone you suspect does not drink the proper
shade
of cool aid?
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
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That is not an answer. Quantify it please. How much of the national
economy should be at the direction of the government (government
spending plus government mandated spending) vs. the private sector?
20%? 50%? 75%? How much? In my experience with proponents of big
government the answer is never quantified, only "more".
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