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re: "selected items", if you click through to the PDF there is a footnote attached: >4 Budget calculations are based on budget allocations obtained from the Of
by brown9-2 16y ago
re: "selected items", if you click through to the PDF there is a footnote attached:
>4 Budget calculations are based on budget allocations obtained from the Office of Management and Budget using historical tables from the FY2011 budget submission as well as the Congressional Budget Office website for such items as interest on the debt, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
My guess is that the real cause of "selected items" is that the number of things paid for by your taxes are obviously much larger than could fit on a short list, and has a long tail.
- hugh3 16y agoMy guess is that the real cause of "selected items" is that the number of things paid for by your taxes are obviously much larger than could fit on a short list, and has a long tail. Well, of course that depends how you slice it. Break it down by department and it looks more like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fy2010_spending_by_category.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fy2010_spending_by_categor... The twenty-something listed departments account for 97% of the budget (of course there's other government spending which isn't listed explicitly in the budget, I suppose). This doesn't, of course, include stuff like "Smithsonian Museum", which are included on this list to make people feel warm and fuzzy about paying their taxes.
- VBprogrammer 16y agoIf you are ever asked to make a Pie Chart for general distribution please take this as a perfect example of what not to do. This is almost completely unreadable for 6-8% of the male population who suffer from colour-blindness (myself included).
- wtallis 16y agoI don't think that anybody can reliably match all 31 of those colors, particularly when the context changes from similar shades to white. Especially for the big slices, the name needs to be in the slice, not at the side of the chart. The smaller slices can have the names printed in the callout labels along with the percentages.
- jimbokun 16y agoThis chart shows that the military, entitlements and interest on the debt account for over 80% of the budget. In other words, the things that are pretty much off limits when politicians discuss the budget.
- eli 16y agoI don't have a citation handy, but there's actually a lot of spending that isn't explicitly in the budget.
- argv_empty 16y agoInteresting that this pie chart shows Social Security's budget as about five percent more than DoD's while the components of military spending listed on the sample receipt total less than half of the Social Security spending.