Where Your Tax Dollars Go

The National Priorities Project last week released an easy-to-read guide to where exactly the government spends our tax dollars. In light of the vitriol of austerity now, now, now in order to fix our debt problem, this seems an apropos piece of data to examine when talking about, if anything, should be cut from the federal budget in order to balance the budget and bring down our national debt. When it comes to those most ardently pursuing austerity measures, they want to cut the programs and institutions least costly. In effect, it's not so much about balancing the budget and reducing our debt, it's just about cutting programs for the vulnerable in order to further subsidize corporations and the wealthy.

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