[mr_hammer]

Call it what you want, pull out the amount out of the GDP that the gov’t is responsible for. The whole kit & kaboodle...state, local, county, federal, medicare / medicaid, militay / defense, social service...etc.

As an aside, 12% of the GDP is manufacturing, the last I heard. Wonder how much of that gov’t induced?

[1rudeboy]

Federal Outlays as a Percentage of GDP
Average over the past half century: 20.2 percent
In 2007, the year before the crisis: 20.0 percent
In 2009, from the Obama budget: 27.2 percent
Average 2010-19, in Obama budget: 22.6 percent
In 2019, last year of Obama budget: 22.6 percent

Source.