Most of your taxes to the federal government actually get spent for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Defense and Interest expense. Unfortunately, just Medi

Most of your taxes to the federal government actually get spent for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Defense and Interest expense. Unfortunately, just Medicare, Social Security and interest expense cost over 2.4 trillion dollars. And yes, that's more than the 2 trillion that the government makes... And we haven't even paid for the actual services and defense! [1] http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2011/0119-budget/index.html?hp&ref=politics http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2011/0119-...