
If a ‘big, beautiful bill’ isn’t balanced, it’s just a big bill for all to pay
This all made me curious what U.S. government spending was in 1990. It was $1.8 trillion (in 1989, the year prior, spending was in the billions, with a “b”). Lest I wax nostalgic, I checked with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index data …