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barbara 04-26-2013 09:05 AM

Where did your tax dollars go?
 
http://www.wheredidmytaxdollarsgo.com/


Interesting pie chart. Seems most of my taxes go to military defense.

icenine 04-26-2013 09:22 AM

It seems to me that the pie chart is split pretty evenly between defense, social security and medicare.


Where did my California state tax all go Barbara?...I think I paid almost 3 grand.

piece-itpete 04-26-2013 09:33 AM

That is really interesting!

Btw the military is nefarious :) I clicked on 'income security' and a bit of that goes to the military retirement fund.

Pete

icenine 04-26-2013 09:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by piece-itpete (Post 155607)
That is really interesting!

Btw the military is nefarious :) I clicked on 'income security' and a bit of that goes to the military retirement fund.

Pete

thanks Pete!
I am going to buy a Mcintosh amp with my next retirement check;)

piece-itpete 04-26-2013 09:45 AM

Gaaa!!

:D

Pete

CarlV 04-26-2013 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by barbara (Post 155601)
http://www.wheredidmytaxdollarsgo.com/


Interesting pie chart. Seems most of my taxes go to military defense.

It seems to work that way at 30k, 50k, and even 250k. :(


Neat site Barbara, thanks!


Carl

icenine 04-26-2013 10:12 AM

Hey guys you need to keep me in style.

ebacon 04-26-2013 10:12 AM

The military consumes roughly all income tax revenue. The federal gov't pays for everything else with debt.

My suspicion is that web site merely ties your income level to your IP address. The web site owners then sell your data.

icenine 04-26-2013 10:18 AM

Like I have said before (despite derision from my left wing buddies that do not like the MIC) it is big chunk of our economy. If it goes away we will all have to work at Walmart perhaps. And do not think your private place of employment is not tied to it in some way.

flame away

lol

merrylander 04-26-2013 10:39 AM

No flames, but there are countless other things we need that could use up the money and employ people in the process, it is a function of priorities methinks


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