Death And Taxes

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Death and Taxes: A visual look at where US tax dollars go



Most Americans are unaware of how much of their taxes fund the military, and those aware are often misinformed. Jesse Bachman spent close to a year in extensive research and number crunching to get the facts and produce this holistic graph with extensive detail. The effort paid off in the form of an informative map that's easy to read and compare. The author hopes that it will make people think and ask questions. Why do we spend more on jets than we do on public housing? Why is the Endowment for the Arts so small? What's with all this foreign military financing?

All budget figures are from the Office of Management and Budget (Whitehouse.gov/omb/) with supplementary military data from the department of Defense (DoD.mil) and the Center for Defense Information (CDI.org). The DoD is under congressional control and thus, as a governmental department, was placed on the right side of the graph. However, for the purpose of this chart, the DoD is on the left as the total is divided into military and non-military spending.

All circles are sized based on their values and relative to the total budget. Recipients of less than 200 Bilion dollars are generally not depicted except in cases when their importance or relevance merits depiction. The DoD was broken down by branch and then major procurements and programs were depicted. Inlay pie charts were added to reduce redundancy.

Source:
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project...240&domain=

Original Site:
http://www.thebudgetgraph.com/view.html

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Quote:Death and Taxes: A visual look at where US tax dollars go ...

<span style="color:#3333FF">Fantastic!

Just 24 hours ago, I was wondering if there was a web site which displayed with graphics the annual military budget vis a vis the annual U.S. budget and yearly taxation.

Graphic displays like this have visual (and visceral!) impact, as opposed to dry, non-involving, non-graphic, "line by line" statistics.

What an educational tool!

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Quote:... it looks you've been involved quite a bit in researching this sort of material ...

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Nice chart!

However, as the Federal Reserve stated years ago, taxation for revenue raising purposes is obsolete.
It would appear that taxes don't fund anything. The massive black budget, the outlandish expenses incurred in financing the 'shadow government' can't be satisfied via taxes.

[ephilution]

Quote:Nice chart!

However, as the Federal Reserve stated years ago, taxation for revenue raising purposes is obsolete.
It would appear that taxes don't fund anything. The massive black budget, the outlandish expenses incurred in financing the 'shadow government' can't be satisfied via taxes.

I guess that's where revenues from the illicit drug trade come to the rescue.

[ephilution]

Quote:

Quote:Death and Taxes: A visual look at where US tax dollars go ...

<span style="color:#3333FF">Fantastic!

Just 24 hours ago, I was wondering if there was a web site which displayed with graphics the annual military budget vis a vis the annual U.S. budget and yearly taxation.

Graphic displays like this have visual (and visceral!) impact, as opposed to dry, non-involving, non-graphic, "line by line" statistics.

What an educational tool!

They have a sale with me!

Thank you, "E" ...

... you've "made my day"!!:)

Glad to know buddy, it's a pleasure.

Quote:Their purchase page is located at this link ...

... and check out the first quote on the purchase page by "Kevin Marlowe". As we say on this Forum, "ELL-OH-ELL"!

Quote:ps. I don't know about the rest of you but this use of bright red colored letters on a grey background is really hurting my eyes, so could you (and everyone else for that matter) please refrain from using that color combination as much as possible?

When I log in, I get a light blue background.

How did you get a grey background?

I have no idea, I just have it. I use Firefox mostly but I get a grey background with Explorer too. My OS or machine must be cursed.

Quote:By the way, I love your "signature" with the picture of the Pope.

It's cute isn't it?

Quote:It reminds me of the last scenes of the movie BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON where Francis of Assisi has an audience with the Pope.

Quote:... it looks you've been involved quite a bit in researching this sort of material ...

And thank you for the kind compliment.

To paraphrase Sir Isaac Newton, I feel like the leprechaun who "stands on the shoulders of giants".

The real "giants" are good people like you (with your tireless posting, and informative torrents), and the wonderful men and women of this Forum.

ConCen has been quite an education for me.

Thanks, again!

It's a pleasure solar... Enjoy.