Is that true? It's certainly true that under many of these alternative tax structures, we can't fund what we do right now. If instead there was a list that sai

Is that true? It's certainly true that under many of these alternative tax structures, we can't fund what we do right now. If instead there was a list that said, "Here is the amount of money that went to each of the major federal departments", maybe people would say, "really? that's cheap!" or "really? we spend that much on defense???" Who knows, but they'd be better informed. As I recall to a rough first approximation only about 1/5 of government spending isn't Defense, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. That's the first thing to keep in mind when talking about deficits, taxation and priorities. Personally every time I look at my pay statement the taxes sting badly. However, I think the more interesting discussion to have is, "what are we spending money on?"