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That is a great idea. Understanding government expenditure on some level should be a fundamental part of a citizen's participation. I don't yet fully understa
by hardlianotion 7y ago
That is a great idea. Understanding government expenditure on some level should be a fundamental part of a citizen's participation.
I don't yet fully understand how to read it. It's not really clear to me what the difference in income and expenditure is - the impression the diagram gives me is other that income is balanced by expenditure, or that there is a budget surplus maybe. I think I recall that there is a budget deficit that the government runs.
Grateful for advice/corrections ...
- clarkey252 7y agoThere is a tiny red deficit "income" at the top just to the left of the middle of about £55.8bn
- hardlianotion 7y agoThanks - that's going on my bookmarked links.
- hardlianotion 7y agoOK - I see a little more now. The red influx is some measure of deficit spending.
- mytailorisrich 7y ago> the impression the diagram gives me is other that income is balanced by expenditure As the government runs a deficit, part of the income comes from loans. This is listed as 'deficit' in this visualisation.
- hardlianotion 7y agoThanks - makes more sense than what I just wrote down.
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- barryfandango 7y ago: ;)
- hardlianotion 7y agolooking ...
- Spare_account 7y agoDid you use voice-to-text to type this comment?
- barryfandango 7y agoThat is an unfounded accusation exclamation point
- monadgonad 7y ago> Understanding government expenditure on some level should be a fundamental part of a citizen's participation. HMRC sends people this information annually - a breakdown of what their amount of tax paid was spent on.
- deadbunny 7y agoThat doesn't mean it's understandable to the average person. SpaceX could send me detailed schematics of every rocket that launches and I wouldn't have a clue how it works.
- hardlianotion 7y agoGood.
- catacombs 7y ago> I don't yet fully understand how to read it. A graphic that's hard to read is a failed graphic.
- ackshually 7y agoAgreed, this is a great resource, and the more of those "no data" end points that are filled in, the better. Would be great to drill down and specifically see who gets paid what, for doing which jobs, how much money is going to which initiative, etc. Would probably quite the undertaking, with the amount of beuraucracy in the British government.