"Outlay Per Capita": Scary Graph

The scariest thing you've seen in a long time:

Note that the y-axis is logarithmic.

One hundred years ago the federal government spent the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $200 per person; today it spends more than $12,000 per person.

(HT: William M. Briggs and Wendy McElroy.)

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