Federal government spending shows charts on national US spending by year as  a percentage of GDP. Part of the Federal ... As this 2012 edition of Federal  Spending by the Numbers shows, total federal spending for fiscal year 2012[1]  reached $3.6 trillion, or 22.9 percent the size of the entire U.S. economy. In the  past 20 ...
Mar 30, 2017 ... Revenue will grow from 17.8 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2017 to  19.6 percent in 2047, while spending will grow from 20.7 percent of ... Spending  growth is driven entirely by the rising costs of Social Security, health care, and  interest on the debt; other areas of the budget will shrink as a ...
Apr 2, 2015 ... When a random sample of American adults were asked the question “Just a  rough guess, what percent profit on each dollar of sales do you think the ... 6.5%,  or almost 30 percentage points below what the public thinks is a normal profit  margin, then hopefully the average person would become a little more ...
Deficit reduction in the United States refers to taxation, spending, and economic  policy debates and proposals designed to reduce the Federal budget deficit.  Government agencies including the Government Accountability Office (GAO),  Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB ),and ...
Before adjusting for inflation, GDP was. $4.603 trillion, up from $4.523 trillion."  The GDP deflator used for revised calculations is a) 118.0 or less b) more than ...  Suppose the sum of consumption, investment, and government spending is $620  .... a healthy decline in the unemployment rate of 1.5 percentage points per year.
The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget.