Impact of government spending

Scroll down to see "projections" for 2011 and 2012. The trend from 2001 to 2012 is . . . sobering does not seem to capture what this trend implies. The final graphic captures the result of redistribution and seems to confirm Buchanan's thesis in Democracy in Deficit.

US National Debt As Percent Of GDP
Fiscal Years 1792 to 2012

Year	GDP-US $ billion	Gross Public Debt-fed pct GDP
1792	0.22	35.10
1793	0.25	32.14
1794	0.31	25.30
1795	0.38	21.25
1796	0.41	20.43
1797	0.41	20.01
1798	0.41	19.32
1799	0.44	17.82
1800	0.48	17.29
1801	0.51	16.28
1802	0.45	17.94
1803	0.48	16.05
1804	0.53	16.31
1805	0.56	14.70
1806	0.61	12.41
1807	0.58	11.93
1808	0.64	10.19
1809	0.68	8.39
1810	0.7	7.60
1811	0.76	6.32
1812	0.78	5.80
1813	0.96	5.83
1814	1.07	7.62
1815	0.92	10.85
1816	0.81	15.72
1817	0.76	16.25
1818	0.73	14.17
1819	0.72	13.27
1820	0.7	13.00
1821	0.73	12.33
1822	0.8	11.69
1823	0.75	12.12
1824	0.75	12.04
1825	0.81	10.34
1826	0.86	9.42
1827	0.91	8.13
1828	0.89	7.58
1829	0.92	6.35
1830	1.01	4.81
1831	1.04	3.76
1832	1.12	2.17
1833	1.15	0.61
1834	1.21	0.39
1835	1.33	0.00
1836	1.46	0.00
1837	1.54	0.02
1838	1.58	0.21
1839	1.65	0.63
1840	1.56	0.23
1841	1.64	0.32
1842	1.6	0.85
1843	1.55	2.11
1844	1.69	1.39
1845	1.84	0.87
1846	2.04	0.76
1847	2.39	1.62
1848	2.4	1.96
1849	2.4	2.63
1850	2.56	2.48
1851	2.7	2.53
1852	3.04	2.18
1853	3.28	1.82
1854	3.68	1.15
1855	3.94	0.90
1856	4.01	0.80
1857	4.14	0.69
1858	4.05	1.11
1859	4.38	1.34
1860	4.35	1.49
1861	4.6	1.97
1862	5.79	9.05
1863	7.62	14.70
1864	9.46	19.19
1865	9.88	27.13
1866	8.99	30.85
1867	8.34	32.11
1868	8.15	32.05
1869	7.85	32.97
1870	7.74	32.05
1871	7.59	31.00
1872	8.23	27.38
1873	8.75	25.54
1874	8.48	26.55
1875	8.16	27.36
1876	8.31	26.24
1877	8.52	25.88
1878	8.38	26.92
1879	9.36	25.10
1880	10.4	20.39
1881	11.6	17.84
1882	12.2	15.72
1883	12.3	15.32
1884	11.8	15.51
1885	11.6	16.07
1886	12.2	14.55
1887	13.1	12.65
1888	13.9	12.18
1889	13.9	11.65
1890	15.1	10.28
1891	15.4	10.04
1892	16.4	9.69
1893	15.4	10.04
1894	14.1	11.58
1895	15.6	10.74
1896	15.5	11.42
1897	16.2	11.22
1898	18.1	9.93
1899	19.5	10.22
1900	20.6	10.37
1901	22.3	9.61
1902	24.1	8.96
1903	25.9	8.50
1904	25.7	8.81
1905	28.8	7.90
1906	31	7.54
1907	33.9	7.25
1908	30.1	8.73
1909	32.2	8.20
1910	33.4	7.94
1911	34.3	8.06
1912	37.4	7.67
1913	39.1	7.46
1914	36.5	7.98
1915	38.7	7.90
1916	49.6	7.28
1917	59.7	9.58
1918	75.8	19.25
1919	78.3	34.98
1920	88.4	29.36
1921	73.6	32.58
1922	73.4	31.29
1923	85.4	26.17
1924	86.9	24.45
1925	90.6	22.64
1926	96.9	20.27
1927	95.5	19.38
1928	97.4	18.07
1929	103.6	16.34
1930	91.2	17.75
1931	76.5	21.96
1932	58.7	33.20
1933	56.4	39.96
1934	66	40.99
1935	73.3	39.16
1936	83.8	40.31
1937	91.9	39.64
1938	86.1	43.16
1939	92.2	43.86
1940	101.4	42.37
1941	126.7	38.64
1942	161.9	44.73
1943	198.6	68.83
1944	219.8	91.45
1945	223.1	115.95
1946	222.3	121.20
1947	244.2	105.77
1948	269.2	93.72
1949	267.3	94.56
1950	293.8	87.60
1951	339.3	75.22
1952	358.3	72.32
1953	379.4	70.13
1954	380.4	71.31
1955	414.8	66.15
1956	437.5	62.34
1957	461.1	58.67
1958	467.2	59.15
1959	506.6	56.20
1960	526.4	54.39
1961	544.7	53.05
1962	585.6	50.92
1963	617.7	49.52
1964	663.6	46.97
1965	719.1	44.12
1966	787.8	40.61
1967	832.6	39.18
1968	910	38.20
1969	984.6	35.93
1970	1038.5	35.72
1971	1127.1	35.32
1972	1238.3	34.50
1973	1382.7	33.13
1974	1500	31.67
1975	1638.3	32.55
1976	1825.3	33.99
1977	2030.9	34.41
1978	2294.7	33.62
1979	2563.3	32.24
1980	2789.5	32.54
1981	3128.4	31.90
1982	3255	35.09
1983	3536.7	38.94
1984	3933.2	39.97
1985	4220.3	43.20
1986	4462.8	47.62
1987	4739.5	49.59
1988	5103.8	50.99
1989	5484.4	52.10
1990	5803.1	55.72
1991	5995.9	61.13
1992	6337.7	64.13
1993	6657.4	66.26
1994	7072.2	66.35
1995	7397.7	67.24
1996	7816.9	66.84
1997	8304.3	65.18
1998	8679.66	63.67
1999	9201.14	61.47
2000	9749.1	58.20
2001	10058.2	57.74
2002	10398.4	59.90
2003	10886.2	62.31
2004	11607	63.57
2005	12339	64.29
2006	13090.8	64.98
2007	13715.7	65.67
2008	14165.6	70.49
2009	14240.2	90.36
2010	14728.8	98.15
2011	15499.8	101.12
2012	16470.4	100.58