And at least 40% (maybe even more) of that is total waste. Civil servants are overpaid and under work - when they even show up - so its a double whammy regarding salaries and then we get to the overly generous health benefits and the stupidly generous retirement benefits and that's before we get to the bridges to nowhere and investigating the sex lives of various animals and insects and the bad loans to insolvent companies who will never repay them and the idiotic overpayment for almost everything the military buys due to stupid, stupid, stupid, downright idiotic procurement processes.
That excess 40% could come back to the people as lower taxes and people will spend their extra money and the economy gets better, not worse. The government MAKES NOTHING. It has certain jobs to do but everything else is just a waste of taxpayer money. Who ever said that the government has to be the mommy