and that's roughly what had been since the constitution was adopted the center and a half earlier except for a period of major war half of that one for the army in there local government spending with something like seven eight nightly local state and local and half of that was going for schools and roads now today total government spending at all levels is forty three percent of the national income and two thirds of that as federal one-third state and local the federal portion is thirty percent of national income about or ten times as much as it was when i was graduated from high school and be the end of that statement that'll that figure understate the fraction of the resources is being absorbed by the political market because in addition the government spending government mandates a great many expenditures on all of us which government never used to do from the simple thing of having anything that will require you to paper entitled pollution devices other automobiles to the clean air bill to see uh... it for disability in the down the law