Here and here are two web sites that do a great job personalizing the way your tax dollars are spent. They are both taking the budget and showing how much of the taxes you actually pay get spent on each category of spending. I know that many of my friends will be surprised how little money is spent on one of their favorite hobby-horses, such as foreign aid or the war on terror. Me, I remain shocked at just how much of my money the government steals overall, and how much goes for entitlement programs that I believe should just go away...
I wish everyone got a receipt like this. Better yet, I wish we all had to write a check to the government for our taxes, rather than have it so cleverly “hidden” by the trick of withholding...
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