Numbers are never definitive. But, they are always important. The Following is an excerpt from the federal government's Historical Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits (1789-2016). Noman found the White House Office of Management and Budget's website very interesting. The full budget can be accessed by clicking the following link. Try to imagine what the Founding Fathers would make of the information on this table, and of what has happened (and is estimated to happen) since 2009.
Be sure to listen to the Chicago Public Radio interview at the end of this post with then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. He candidly discusses redistributive change, the role of the courts and legislatures in achieving it, and the defectiveness of the traditional view of the US Constitution as a document establishing negative liberties--that it, as a document giving broad scope to state's rights and personal freedom by limiting what the federal government is empowered to do to its constituent states, and citizens. He laments that the Founders didn't go further, to prescribe what the government must do on people's behalf. This would naturally entail the government's doing things to people who stood in the way of its perceived affirmative duties. Despite the exaltedness of this vision of government as provider, protector and leveler of all inequalities, some people would view Senator (President) Obama's view as an invitation to tyranny.
| Year | Total | ||
| Receipts | Outlays | Surplus or Deficit (−) | |
| 1789–1849 | 1,160 | 1,090 | 70 |
| 1850–1900 | 14,462 | 15,453 | -991 |
| 1901 | 588 | 525 | 63 |
| 1902 | 562 | 485 | 77 |
| 1903 | 562 | 517 | 45 |
| 1904 | 541 | 584 | -43 |
| 1905 | 544 | 567 | -23 |
| 1906 | 595 | 570 | 25 |
| 1907 | 666 | 579 | 87 |
| 1908 | 602 | 659 | -57 |
| 1909 | 604 | 694 | -89 |
| 1910 | 676 | 694 | -18 |
| 1911 | 702 | 691 | 11 |
| 1912 | 693 | 690 | 3 |
| 1913 | 714 | 715 | −* |
| 1914 | 725 | 726 | −* |
| 1915 | 683 | 746 | -63 |
| 1916 | 761 | 713 | 48 |
| 1917 | 1,101 | 1,954 | -853 |
| 1918 | 3,645 | 12,677 | -9,032 |
| 1919 | 5,130 | 18,493 | -13,363 |
| 1920 | 6,649 | 6,358 | 291 |
| 1921 | 5,571 | 5,062 | 509 |
| 1922 | 4,026 | 3,289 | 736 |
| 1923 | 3,853 | 3,140 | 713 |
| 1924 | 3,871 | 2,908 | 963 |
| 1925 | 3,641 | 2,924 | 717 |
| 1926 | 3,795 | 2,930 | 865 |
| 1927 | 4,013 | 2,857 | 1,155 |
| 1928 | 3,900 | 2,961 | 939 |
| 1929 | 3,862 | 3,127 | 734 |
| 1930 | 4,058 | 3,320 | 738 |
| 1931 | 3,116 | 3,577 | -462 |
| 1932 | 1,924 | 4,659 | -2,735 |
| 1933 | 1,997 | 4,598 | -2,602 |
| 1934 | 2,955 | 6,541 | -3,586 |
| 1935 | 3,609 | 6,412 | -2,803 |
| 1936 | 3,923 | 8,228 | -4,304 |
| 1937 | 5,387 | 7,580 | -2,193 |
| 1938 | 6,751 | 6,840 | -89 |
| 1939 | 6,295 | 9,141 | -2,846 |
| 1940 | 6,548 | 9,468 | -2,920 |
| 1941 | 8,712 | 13,653 | -4,941 |
| 1942 | 14,634 | 35,137 | -20,503 |
| 1943 | 24,001 | 78,555 | -54,554 |
| 1944 | 43,747 | 91,304 | -47,557 |
| 1945 | 45,159 | 92,712 | -47,553 |
| 1946 | 39,296 | 55,232 | -15,936 |
| 1947 | 38,514 | 34,496 | 4,018 |
| 1948 | 41,560 | 29,764 | 11,796 |
| 1949 | 39,415 | 38,835 | 580 |
| 1950 | 39,443 | 42,562 | -3,119 |
| 1951 | 51,616 | 45,514 | 6,102 |
| 1952 | 66,167 | 67,686 | -1,519 |
| 1953 | 69,608 | 76,101 | -6,493 |
| 1954 | 69,701 | 70,855 | -1,154 |
| 1955 | 65,451 | 68,444 | -2,993 |
| 1956 | 74,587 | 70,640 | 3,947 |
| 1957 | 79,990 | 76,578 | 3,412 |
| 1958 | 79,636 | 82,405 | -2,769 |
| 1959 | 79,249 | 92,098 | -12,849 |
| 1960 | 92,492 | 92,191 | 301 |
| 1961 | 94,388 | 97,723 | -3,335 |
| 1962 | 99,676 | 106,821 | -7,146 |
| 1963 | 106,560 | 111,316 | -4,756 |
| 1964 | 112,613 | 118,528 | -5,915 |
| 1965 | 116,817 | 118,228 | -1,411 |
| 1966 | 130,835 | 134,532 | -3,698 |
| 1967 | 148,822 | 157,464 | -8,643 |
| 1968 | 152,973 | 178,134 | -25,161 |
| 1969 | 186,882 | 183,640 | 3,242 |
| 1970 | 192,807 | 195,649 | -2,842 |
| 1971 | 187,139 | 210,172 | -23,033 |
| 1972 | 207,309 | 230,681 | -23,373 |
| 1973 | 230,799 | 245,707 | -14,908 |
| 1974 | 263,224 | 269,359 | -6,135 |
| 1975 | 279,090 | 332,332 | -53,242 |
| 1976 | 298,060 | 371,792 | -73,732 |
| TQ | 81,232 | 95,975 | -14,744 |
| 1977 | 355,559 | 409,218 | -53,659 |
| 1978 | 399,561 | 458,746 | -59,185 |
| 1979 | 463,302 | 504,028 | -40,726 |
| 1980 | 517,112 | 590,941 | -73,830 |
| 1981 | 599,272 | 678,241 | -78,968 |
| 1982 | 617,766 | 745,743 | -127,977 |
| 1983 | 600,562 | 808,364 | -207,802 |
| 1984 | 666,438 | 851,805 | -185,367 |
| 1985 | 734,037 | 946,344 | -212,308 |
| 1986 | 769,155 | 990,382 | -221,227 |
| 1987 | 854,288 | 1,004,017 | -149,730 |
| 1988 | 909,238 | 1,064,416 | -155,178 |
| 1989 | 991,105 | 1,143,744 | -152,639 |
| 1990 | 1,031,958 | 1,252,994 | -221,036 |
| 1991 | 1,054,988 | 1,324,226 | -269,238 |
| 1992 | 1,091,208 | 1,381,529 | -290,321 |
| 1993 | 1,154,335 | 1,409,386 | -255,051 |
| 1994 | 1,258,566 | 1,461,753 | -203,186 |
| 1995 | 1,351,790 | 1,515,742 | -163,952 |
| 1996 | 1,453,053 | 1,560,484 | -107,431 |
| 1997 | 1,579,232 | 1,601,116 | -21,884 |
| 1998 | 1,721,728 | 1,652,458 | 69,270 |
| 1999 | 1,827,452 | 1,701,842 | 125,610 |
| 2000 | 2,025,191 | 1,788,950 | 236,241 |
| 2001 | 1,991,082 | 1,862,846 | 128,236 |
| 2002 | 1,853,136 | 2,010,894 | -157,758 |
| 2003 | 1,782,314 | 2,159,899 | -377,585 |
| 2004 | 1,880,114 | 2,292,841 | -412,727 |
| 2005 | 2,153,611 | 2,471,957 | -318,346 |
| 2006 | 2,406,869 | 2,655,050 | -248,181 |
| 2007 | 2,567,985 | 2,728,686 | -160,701 |
| 2008 | 2,523,991 | 2,982,544 | -458,553 |
| 2009 | 2,104,989 | 3,517,677 | -1,412,688 |
| 2010 | 2,162,724 | 3,456,213 | -1,293,489 |
| 2011 estimate | 2,173,700 | 3,818,819 | -1,645,119 |
| 2012 estimate | 2,627,449 | 3,728,686 | -1,101,237 |
| 2013 estimate | 3,003,345 | 3,770,876 | -767,531 |
| 2014 estimate | 3,332,588 | 3,977,141 | -644,553 |
| 2015 estimate | 3,583,043 | 4,189,773 | -606,730 |
| 2016 estimate | 3,819,103 | 4,467,806 | -648,703 |
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