A neat site about the federal budget

[BoberFett]

Yes, I saw this on Digg, but it's neat and I'm sure not everyone uses Digg.

http://www.thebudgetgraph.com/poster/

It's an interactive poster with the budget of the federal government represented graphically by department.

Edit: Just for further clarification, it's not the entire budget, just discretionary spending.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

DOD - 481 Billion
War on Terror - 145 Billion
US Institute of Peace - 0.030 Billion

 

[ProfJohn]

Without entitlement programs you get a very biased view of the budget.

The DoD is no longer the largest department, you would never know that based on that poster though.

 

[jpeyton]

Corporation Income Taxes $315 billion (- 8%)
Income Taxes $1,247 billion (+ 7%)

 

[jpeyton]

BTW, they have a smaller chart in the bottom right hand corner with the total budget, not just discretionary (although it is less detailed).

 

[ProfJohn]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
BTW, they have a smaller chart in the bottom right hand corner with the total budget, not just discretionary (although it is less detailed).

I wonder about the politics of the people who created this graph.

They show Defense and National security to be $717 billion, but the DoD budget is well below that, $480 billion. Which means they combined the DoD with other departments to make it appear as the biggest spending on the page.

Yet they separate Medicare and Medicaid, despite the fact that both come from the same department. Taken individually they look smaller when in fact they are very similar programs that essentially provide medical care to the poor or the old.

If they did a break down based on government agency the DoD would actually be the third largest spending item, not THE largest.

 

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn

Originally posted by: jpeyton
BTW, they have a smaller chart in the bottom right hand corner with the total budget, not just discretionary (although it is less detailed).

I wonder about the politics of the people who created this graph.

They show Defense and National security to be $717 billion, but the DoD budget is well below that, $480 billion. Which means they combined the DoD with other departments to make it appear as the biggest spending on the page.

Yet they separate Medicare and Medicaid, despite the fact that both come from the same department. Taken individually they look smaller when in fact they are very similar programs that essentially provide medical care to the poor or the old.

If they did a break down based on government agency the DoD would actually be the third largest spending item, not THE largest.

Yet defnese spending and national security (which go hand in hand) make up 67% of the total.

 

[bobdelt]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Corporation Income Taxes $315 billion (- 8%)
Income Taxes $1,247 billion (+ 7%)

Good. Corporations are taxed too high, slows growth, income just flows to individuals anyway.

lol, I love how income taxes went up after Bush's tax cuts for the super wealthy.... interesting.