"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
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Mike Ash wrote:
In article ,
Dallas wrote:

Government sector jobs are now more than 50% of total employment in
this country and considering benefits, they now make double the
average private sector salary.

I usually stay out of these discussions but this is just absurd.

50% of total employment and 2x the average private sector salary would
imply that 67% of total salaries in the US are paid to government
employees, and only 33% of total salaries are paid to private
employees.

Just for the record, historical federal income and expenditures are
available he

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy05/hist.html

Obviously not included are state and local taxes (typically income, sales,
and property taxes being the most well known.)

Federal outlays alone accounts for ~19.4% of GDP.


On budget; Off Budget spending is substantially higher.

Matt