Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Spending by government currently amounts to about 45 percent of national income. By that test, government owns 45 percent of the means of production that produce the national income. The U.S. is now 45 percent socialist.” ~ Milton Friedman (1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system"Source: "We Have Socialism, Q.E.D." in The New York Times (31 December 1989)