Where did your tax dollars go?

965 billion:
• Military Personnel $129 billion
• Operation & Maintenance. $241 billion
• Procurement $143 billion
• Research & Development. $79 billion
• Construction $15 billion
• Family Housing $3 billion
• DoD misc. $4 billion
• Retired Pay $70 billion
• DoE nuclear weapons $17 billion
• NASA (50%) $9 billion
• International Security $9 billion
• Homeland Security. (military) $35 billion
• State Department. (partial) $6 billion
• other military (non-DoD) $5 billion
• “Global War on Terror” $200 billion [including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan]

Past Military, $484 billion:
• Veterans’ Benefits $94 billion
• Interest on national debt (80%) created by military spending, $390 billion

Human Resources$789 billion:
• Health/Human Services
• Social. Security. Administration
• Education Dept.
• Food/Nutrition programs
• Housing & Urban Development.
• Labor Department. • other human resources.

General Government$304 billion:
• Interest on debt (20%)
• Treasury
• Government personnel
• Justice Department.
• State Department.
• Homeland Security (15%)
• International Affairs
• NASA (50%)
• Judicial
• Legislative
• other general government.

Physical Resources$117 billion:
• Agriculture
• Interior
• Transportation
• Homeland Security (15%)
• HUD
• Commerce
• Energy (non-military)
• Environmental Protection
• National Science Foundation
• Army Corps Engineers
• Federal Communications Commission
• other physical resources

Statistics from: http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm
“Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes”

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