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Yes, there are multiple issues: one of which is whether or not the government should be paying for NPR and foreign aid at all. But, what I think the original
by Ratufa 15y ago
Yes, there are multiple issues: one of which is whether or not the government should be paying for NPR and foreign aid at all. But, what I think the original poster was responding to, and what the main purpose of the "receipt" is, is that most (or at at least very many) people don't know how government spending is apportioned.
- dantheman 15y agoI'll agree with that, people don't realize how much stuff costs. Like NASA (17.6 Billion[1]) vs Department of Education (71 Billion[2]) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Education http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Edu...
- anonymoushn 15y agoRight, but the receipt does very little to fix this. Two of the largest categories of spending are completely obfuscated by it.