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The Future of the Deficit

By DAVID LEONHARDT

 

The Heritage Foundation has put together some good historical numbers on the kinds of spending that the federal government does. Those numbers appear alongside my column this week.

If you want to get a sense for where spending is headed, have a look at this chart from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/the-future-of-the-deficit/?ref=economy