The report also referenced a few other great websites that try to get a handle on the same data. WhatWePayFor.com lets you plug in your salary and generate a dollar-amount break-down for your tax bill and the National Priorities Project has a Tax Day page that does a similar thing in less detail.
Monday, October 04, 2010
Before Congress gets back to balancing the budget...
I know I just wrote about this a few posts ago but one of my favorite podcasts (Planet Money) mentioned a report that effectively gave a receipt showing how are federal tax dollars are spent. The categories they chose to track seem a bit arbitrary but its worth taking a look at. And the top 3: Defense, Social Security, Health Insurance.
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