This is one of the most interesting blogs I have read in awhile.
Washington will spend $24,106 per household in 2007, the highest total since World War II, and an inflation-adjusted $4,000 more than in 2001.
Washington will spend this $24,106 per household as follows
Social Security/Medicare: $8,301.
Defense: $4,951.
Anti-poverty programs: $3,550
Interest on the federal debt: $2,071
Federal employee retirement benefits: $907
Health research/regulation: $664
Veterans' benefits: $627
Education: $584
Highways/mass transit: $418
Justice administration: $392
Natural resources/environment: $305
International affairs: $304
Unemployment benefits: $299
Community and regional development: $282
The programs listed above cover $23,655 per household. The remaining $451 is allocated to all other federal programs, including farm subsidies, social services, space exploration, air transportation and energy.
That is real money...that is about how much of YOUR money goes to these things per household.
Are you okay with these numbers?
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Where your tax money goes
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8 comments:
"...all other federal programs, including..."
do you consider corporate welfare and foreign aid "federal programs?"
don't forget that during the 6 years from when bush took office until the democrats took back congress, the republicans added about $7,600 per year per household to the national debt. that's one of the reasons each family pays $2,071 a year in interest.
i'd like to see a reduction in federal employee retirement benefits. i think they are out of line.
Anonymous,
I'd like all the Liberal recipient pork excised out of the budget. All the Socialist programs eliminated. All of the earmarks deleted. All of the appropriations of DOD funds away from DOD, like making soldiers drive buses for the Olympics.
Let's see how you howl then.
PCD -
Republicans have been in control of the government for the last 8-10 years, yet you are still blaming it on liberals?
What a moron.
realism--
It seems the only choice these days is between socialism and socialism-lite.
Hillary Clinton recently said that "I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all."
I believe her.
bush had one idea and we can't afford that either.
as usual, Phil can't be honest about anything, can he?
social security and medicare are taxed on all of us. Its not or at least should not be an expense. Any surplus from it was supposed to be saved in a fund but it never was.
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