This updated historical chart from Steve Moore’s book Govzilla is a bucket of cold water wake-up call about how our federal budget keeps relentlessly expanding.

After adjusting for inflation and accounting for population growth, Uncle Sam is now spending nearly $18k per person! That number has nearly doubled in the last 24 years.

Are federal services twice as good as they were in 2000? No. In many cases (education and road conditions, for example) they are worse.

Spending is taxation. You pay now or you and your children pay later. Trump is going to need a chainsaw to restore fiscal sanity in Washington.