Where does it all go?
Saturday, 15 April 2006 | 130 readers so far
If you wonder where your tax money goes, perhaps you should read this article.
And where did that 40% of your income go? Most of it, if you’re under 65 and working at a regular job, went to the less fortunate. The numbers are stunning. Federal expenditures were $2.55 trillion, with $495 billion going for national defense and another $272 billion going for purchased goods and wages paid. At the same time some $1.69 trillion was transferred to someone else — well, actually a lot of someone elses. That’s some federal case.
Income redistribution makes up the lion’s share of your stolen sweat, your pilfered time and your wasted dollars. No wonder most of you are cheating.
1 April 16th, 2006 at 5:02 am
Dale says:
Was your point to be indignant about taxes or about the ratio of taxes spent?
Here is what I would like to know:
How much money is spent to feed,clothe, and house the poor? Nothing more than that. No school programs, Headstart, medical care, etc
Compare that figure to how much money is spent on foreign aid hidden in congressional laws, agriculture, national security, commerce, and State Department programs. Which is greater?
2 April 17th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Kitanis says:
Citzens Against Government Waste puts out a list every year of money that congress pisses away for their own special projects in the appropriate states.
I can not cheat on my taxes.. I work for the same entinty that is taking money from me. But that does not mean that I am not concerned about what is happening.
The article brings up good points.. Too bad that many in the country and our government continue to spend money on the basis of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Proverty. Thaat was over 40 years old……
3 April 19th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
SK says:
I don’t really wonder where the money goes that the govt steals from us as I see it daily. I don’t mind supporting the military at all, after all we are supposed to have one. But for the life of me I can’t find where our Constitution states that I must support the family down the street. That family consists of a single mother and her 5 children, along with the father of 1 child. She says she’ll never marry anyone as she’ll lose her benefits. ACK!!!