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Spending Decomposition

In progress draft, numbers subject to change.

An attempt to decompose the change in federal non-interest spending, over a window whose start year you choose, into two broad categories: stance, which reflects the government doing more, like paying larger benefits or supporting more carrier groups, and conditions, which covers all the reasons the cost of continuing the same stance can change, including population growth, price increases and other economic developments.

Assumptions

Year by year

Which assumption matters most

What the base year does to the answer