Here's the best set I have found in a brief search.  The set gives us some historical perspective, showing yearly expenditures from fiscal year 1996 through fiscal year 2009.  (The file accompanied this Andrew Garber article, so I suppose that he deserves the credit for this spreadsheet.  Incidentally, it would be better if the spreadsheet had not been converted to a PDF file.  I assume, because of the date, that the numbers for 2009 have changed.)

As I read those numbers, we could, in principle, eliminate our budget deficit by getting spending down to the levels of 2004-2005.  And even a quick scan through the numbers will show you much more.   (For example, closing Evergreen State College would not help much with our budget problems.   Unfortunately, some would add.)

I went looking for this data after seeing the nth local TV story on our budget problems.  None of the stories I have seen have been especially informative, although I will grant that it is hard to describe budget problems on TV.

(If you know of a better set of budget data, please let me know.  And I would like to see a similar set for tax receipts, naturally.  It would be interesting, for example, to see how much money was raised by Gregoire's tax increases.)