Friday, January 25, 2013

A nice source for data on federal spending

There are a few places to go but Andrew Sullivan flags usgovernmentspending.com as the source for this nicely drawn graph - though it would be better if the left hand column went to 100%, but that is a very minor quibble.

As you can tell from the title, this is federal spending on defense as a percentage of GDP. It would be helpful to compare this to spending as a percentage of the entire federal budget as a contrast - but that's another - less minor - quibble.

There's plenty more, so we'll take advantage of it as we proceed.