Want to Reduce Deficit Spending? Prove It.

It would be a lot more productive to e.g. look at the general Tea Party theme, which is smaller government. If the Federal, state and local governments try to do less, there will be more money for the essentials and the entitlement promises (and the latter have to be adjusted, no feasible tax increases will cover their current projected expenses and the status quo will soon devour the "discretionary" budget; heck, Social Security is about to go into a deficit).

It peaked at 52% in 1945 (WWII). Just how much of the country's wealth does the author think our governments (Federal, state and local) can consume?