* Excluding federal grants (which are counted under federal spending), from 1959 to 2022, the portion of U.S. state and local government current expenditures that were spent on: social programs rose from 55% to 60% and then declined to 55%. general government and debt service grew from ...
And if you don’t have time to even watch the last few minutes of the video, the big takeaway is that a majority of people tell pollsters that they want a bigger welfare state, but only if somebody else is paying for it. This is very consistent with polling data I shared back in ...