The largest industry in Virginia is not agriculture/forestry. Though the Farm Bureau likes to bray that it is, the combined components of this good endeavor are a distant, distant second. It is not technology, not ship building, not coal mining, not railroads, not manufacturing, not health care, not construction, not utilities, not tourism. The largest industry, the Bigfoot of Virginia’s economy, is government. Government spending-local, state, and federal-in the Commonwealth totals something in excess of $143 billion annually-nearly $18,500 per capita. Next to Bigfoot, all other components of Virginia’s economy are little monkeys in a cage.
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