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| Buried In Debt: Report Finds Government Spending Per Person Soared 10,000 Percent Over Last Century |
| 2025-12-18 |
| [Federalist] Arguably the height of hypocrisy for the American left is the audacious Make America Affordable Again campaign launched by congressional Democrats ahead of next year’s midterm elections. The idea is to hammer Republicans — particularly President Donald Trump — early and often on pocketbook issues. So the same people that brought you the ill-named Inflation Reduction Act that raised inflation, the same party whose tax-and-spend policies unleashed 9 percent inflation on Americans, are going to tell voters that 3 percent inflation is a “crisis” only they can fix? You bet they are. Talk about the audacity of hope. Of course, if Democrats really cared about the affordability problem in America they would have long ago ended their addiction to big government. Then again, too many Republicans are struggling with the same affliction. Per usual, it’s the American taxpayer picking up the tab for the government junkies. In a new deep dive into the ever-growing monster that is the federal government, public spending tracker OpenTheBooks explores how the leviathan has feasted on taxpayer money over the last century-plus. 10,000 PERCENT Federal spending per person has exploded nearly 10,000 percent since 1916, according to the analysis. That was the year President Woodrow Wilson campaigned for a second term on the slogan, “He Kept Us Out of War.” Within five months of Wilson’s second electoral victory, that slogan would prove to be just another politician’s broken promise. America entered the First World War — the war to end all wars — and Wilson and his fellow Democrats began spending like there was no tomorrow. Wilson presided over a national debt that soared more than 700 percent during his tenure, from $2.9 billion to $23.97 billion. Yes, those debt figures seem quaint next to the $38 trillion obligation currently saddling the federal government — rising by $70,000 every second. Wilson’s War had a great deal to do with the hefty debt in the early 20th century, but the progressive father of the administrative state set federal government on the path to massive expansion — in the bureaucracy’s footprint and their centralized power. In his book, American Leviathan, conservative activist Ned Ryun describes Wilson as one of the “Four Horsemen of the Progressive Apocalypse.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt picked up Wilson’s tax-and-spend torch, and Lyndon Baines Johnson and his costly war on poverty and Vietnam put big government on steroids. Republicans often went along for the ride, especially when it came to their pet projects. All that spending adds up to a disastrous debt. ‘LESS WITH MORE’ In the recently ended fiscal year 2025, the federal government spent a record (again) $7.035 trillion, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates. That’s $20,474.19 for every man, woman and child living in the country. As OpenThe Books’ report notes, median household income in 2024 was $83,730. The government spending share for a family of four would be north of $80,000, just under what that average family would have earned in pre-tax income. |
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