Where does my tax money go?

Where does my tax money go? How is it spent? Very common questions this time of year.

 Third Way has created a tax receipt. Just type in how much you paid in Federal Income Tax, and you can see where your money was flushed down the toilet, I mean  allocated.

Check out the article from Yahoo!:

A taxpayer receipt: Calculate exactly where your tax dollars go

"Just how much of the federal taxes you pay go to footing the bill for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or, what's your share of the tab for interest on the national debt? And how about to fund Medicare and Social Security, or to support foreign aid or the FBI?
The simple truth is most of us don't have any idea how Uncle Sam divvies up the money we send him every year. That makes it hard to understand the real choices the country faces as Congress and the President debate how to get our fiscal house in order."

Click on the link above to read the rest of the article.


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