Thursday, March 29, 2012

How Our Money Is Being Spent

From the National Priorities Project:

New Graphic Shows How Federal Tax Dollars Were Spent in 2011



In the chart above, education, transportation, foreign relations, energy & the environment ALL received less than 3 cents out of every dollar in 2011.  Compare that to our military budget (27 cents) and our health care costs (21 cents)....

On April 17, 2012, your 2011 federal income tax return is due to the IRS. Where did the federal government spend your income taxes during fiscal year 2011?

Federal income tax revenues totaled around $1.13 trillion in fiscal 2011, and this chart shows exactly where the federal government spent each one of those dollars.

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