Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by refurb 1962 days ago
That money is mostly entitlement spending.

You can change a lot of the states level that has nothing to do with entitlements.

1 comments

It's about half entitlements, 27% Medic* + 22% SS, and this percentage will increase quickly.

But that's still $3T for other stuff in average years. Plus they just passed $2T of extra one-off spending for the second time in a year.

That means the Federal government is basically taking all the spending power of the nation and then redistributing it, giving it enormous power compared to the states.