Posted on 06/23/2002 1:10:18 PM PDT by vannrox
How Does Uncle Sam |
How the Federal Government Has Spent the Nation's Tax Dollars |
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$Billions |
Percent |
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|
FY |
FY |
FY |
FY |
FY |
FY |
Proposed |
FY |
FY |
FY |
FY |
FY |
FY |
Proposed |
Total |
$ 78.56 |
$ 76.10 |
$ 111.32 |
$ 245.71 |
$ 808.39 |
$ 1,409.51 |
$ 2,128.23 |
100.0% |
100.0% |
100.0% |
100.0% |
100.0% |
100.0% |
100.0% |
National Defense |
66.70 |
52.80 |
53.40 |
76.68 |
209.90 |
291.09 |
379.01 |
84.9% |
69.4% |
48.0% |
31.2% |
26.0% |
20.7% |
17.8% |
Social Security |
0.18 |
2.72 |
15.79 |
49.09 |
170.72 |
304.59 |
475.93 |
0.2% |
3.6% |
14.2% |
20.0% |
21.1% |
21.6% |
22.4% |
Health and Medical |
0.09 |
0.34 |
1.45 |
17.41 |
81.23 |
229.97 |
466.30 |
0.1% |
0.4% |
1.3% |
7.1% |
10.0% |
16.3% |
21.9% |
Income Security* |
1.74 |
3.82 |
9.31 |
28.28 |
123.03 |
209.93 |
319.68 |
2.2% |
5.0% |
8.4% |
11.5% |
15.2% |
14.9% |
15.0% |
Energy, Natural Resources and Environment |
0.84 |
1.71 |
2.78 |
6.01 |
22.03 |
24.56 |
31.17 |
1.1% |
2.3% |
2.5% |
2.4% |
2.7% |
1.7% |
1.5% |
Commerce, Transportation, and Community and Regional Development |
5.59 |
2.29 |
5.23 |
14.60 |
35.58 |
22.30 |
80.54 |
7.1% |
3.0% |
4.7% |
5.9% |
4.4% |
1.6% |
3.8% |
Education, training, employment, and social services |
0.38 |
0.44 |
1.46 |
12.75 |
26.20 |
47.38 |
79.02 |
0.5% |
0.6% |
1.3% |
5.2% |
3.2% |
3.4% |
3.7% |
Veterans benefits and services |
0.28 |
4.52 |
5.51 |
12.00 |
24.82 |
35.67 |
56.58 |
0.4% |
5.9% |
5.0% |
4.9% |
3.1% |
2.5% |
2.7% |
Net Interest |
1.53 |
5.16 |
7.74 |
17.35 |
89.83 |
198.74 |
180.66 |
1.9% |
6.8% |
7.0% |
7.1% |
11.1% |
14.1% |
8.5% |
Other* |
1.24 |
2.30 |
8.64 |
11.54 |
25.05 |
45.30 |
59.35 |
1.6% |
3.0% |
7.8% |
4.7% |
3.1% |
3.2% |
2.8% |
Source: FY 2003 Budget of the United States Government Historical Tables, Table 3.1. Note: "Income Security" includes General Retirement and Disability, Federal Employee Retirement and Disability, Unemployment Compensation, Food and Nutrition Assistance, Supplemental Security Income, Family and Other Support Assistance, Earned Income Tax Credit, Offsetting Receipts, Housing Assistance and Other. Note: "Other" includes International Affairs, General Science, Space and Technology, Agriculture, Administration of Justice, General Government, Allowances and Undistributed Offsetting Receipts. |
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We gotta find a way to fix this. Gonna be big trouble if we don't.
The graphs are important - more so than the numbers. It's easy to get all exercised over spending $1M or $1B on some blatant pork project, but the truth is that the majority of our money goes to support the life styles of people who can't, or don't want to, support themselves.
If we just changed that to supporting the people who can't, and made the "don't want to"s fend for themselves, we could save a lot!
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