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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (571040)	6/9/2010 6:47:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578012

how much of our economy is not controlled by the government... I don't have precise figures handy, but if your counting by government spending as a percentage of GDP federal, state, and local spending combine to be over 40%. Throw in off budget items and the cost imposed by government regulations and likely somewhere around 50%, perhaps even more. (And that counts only the financial costs of government regulation, not costs imposed that don't have a fairly direct dollar expense) So maybe half government / half private.