[Anechoic]

The biggest issue one person raised is how do you separate out government spending form GDP?

(Note that I agree with your larger point)

One discussion of this point can be found in an Indicator podcast[0] from a couple of months ago.

[0] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1237470062

[braiamp]

And that issue is non-starter, for the same reasons given in the podcast you even linked:

> GDP is just GDP. It's just like, how big is the economy? It's not that hard. And you can't take the government part out of it because the government is a significant part of that.