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April 15, 2008
Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
From the National Priorities Project: Here is where a family's $25,000 of federal income tax in 2007 went:
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Wouldn't most of the Social Security and Medicare come from payroll taxes, so the income tax calculator is overstating the health share coming from income taxes?
Posted by: Zed | Apr 15, 2008 9:12:00 AM
It's broken. It doesn't show the share when taxes are negative.
Posted by: Apep | Apr 15, 2008 12:51:25 PM
22%on defense - Sorry - you must not be counting all the money spent on programs, not classified as military or defense, but actually are for military purposes - when you include them the figure goes well over 50%.
Did you want to show social programs as exceeding military spending?
Posted by: Fred Gale | Apr 15, 2008 8:31:12 PM
Aren't payroll taxes income taxes? If you're self-employed they certainly look that way.
Posted by: Donna B. | Apr 15, 2008 8:33:11 PM
Actually no, Fred Gale, they don't. Look at the breakdown.
Posted by: Glorious | Apr 16, 2008 10:30:16 AM
Well IF this graphic is factual it seems that at little over $10k goes to financing Constitutionally questionable nanny state nonsense...
Posted by: juandos | Apr 17, 2008 4:22:55 AM
Can anyone tell me some items in the federal budget that are expenditures of about one billion dollars even? This is for an article I hope to write and would be pleased to credit the supplier of this information. Thank You. Joseph P. Curran
Posted by: Joseph P. Curran | Jun 2, 2008 10:38:26 AM
