Table 20.1 Table 20.1 Distribution of all US government expenditure by level of government (selected years) Federal State Local 1900 34.1% 8.2% 57.7% 1910 30.1 9.0 60.9 1920 39.7 9.8 50.5 19 163 51,2 1950 593 15.2 26.5 1960 57.6 13.8 286 1971 48.4 18.6 33.0 1980 54.9 18.1 27.0 1990 56.2 17.9 25.9 1999 5.2 20.9 27,9 SOURCE: Werner Pommerehne, Quantitative Aspects of Federalism: A Study of Six Countries, in The Political Economy of Fiscal Federalism, ed. W. Oates (Lexington, MA: D, C. Heath, 1977), P. 311, except for figures after 1980, which are computed from various editions of US Bureau of the Census Statistical Abstract of the United StatesTable 20.1