This is a quick post to show decade by decade numbers starting in 1940 for the charts used in “What Wickard Has Wrought”. The source of the data is also listed below the figure.
1 Data from the U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/
2 Data from the Federal Register’s list of agencies and published agency history
(7 agencies did not have beginnings dates available and were obmitted from the calculations)
http://www.federalregister.gov/agencies
3 Data from the Federal Register & CFR Publication Statistics – Aggregated Charts
https://www.federalregister.gov/learn/tutorials
4 Summary data from the CCH Standard Federal Tax Reporter
http://www.cchgroup.com
5 Data from the Historical Tables from the Office of Management and Budget
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/
