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Revenue it has since the end of the war. government spending on the other hand has stayed roughly the same. in 1985 federal, state, and local spending was 35% of the economy. in 2006 before this recession it was 35% as well. it's up a little bit right now because we're in a recession so it's more like 39%. >> right. >> but it is, you know, just a wrong perception that government spending has dramatically risen over the past 25 years of our lives. >> i've got to leave it there but i want to remind everybody that in "the washington post" you wrote the op-ed entitled what i built with government ...