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Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go? A Long Story in 5 Quick Graphs
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Tax Day 2011 is Monday, April 18. But where does all our money go? What are all those IRS checksfor?
Here are five ways to look at our tax receipt and the way our tax dollars are used to define our national values. In the gallery below, I’ve also included a handful of images that dive deeply into the question, How Much Money Do We Fork Over? and How Is the Money Spent?
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1. The Tax Receipt
The receipt speaks for itself. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, interest and Middle East wars accounts for the vast majority of our budget. The upshot: Cutting foreign aid and making senators take a pay cut snips insignifi
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