Visualize taxes: a graphic chart of US tax spending (wow!)

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Death and Taxes: A visual look at where your tax dollars go.

Most people are unaware of how much of their taxes fund our military, and those aware are often misinformed. Well here it is. Laid out, easy to read and compare.
With data straight from the White House.

I hope this makes people think and ask questions.

Why do we spend more on jets than we do on public housing?
Why is the Endowment for the Arts so small?
Whats with all this foreign military financing?

Im sure you can come up with numerous questions of your own. Unfortunately i dont have any answers. Our leaders do. Your president, his cabinet and your congress person have these answers. Ask them for the answers or better yet, demand them.

The version submitted to DA is 3500x2333 and is 1.8 megs.
I have provided a larger version so you can see all of the details.
It is 9000x6000 and 5.8 megs. (so make sure your PC can handle it) ;)
Sorry for all the watermarks, you know DA these days.
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Link (with extra-large version): http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9410862/
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Please K&R this thread.

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thanks!!

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I do believe we need to keep up our museums and so on, but as for individual granting...they can keep their money. It always goes to "avant garde" artists who come from big cities. There is very little funding for "regular artists".

And then there is the question of cultural colonialism. If the DC bigwigs and the Nu Yawk artworld think that we hillbilllies need to be edumacted about art, it's going to be their version of culture that gets advanced and not the rich local heritage inherent within each smaller community.

The second point is regarding government censorship and NEA grants. Over the past 15 years or so, the NEA has become very cautious about funding "controversial" subjects and images. That indirectly puts pressure on artists to change their work in order to qualify for funding.

Some will disagree, but that's okay. "Nobody is in charge here...that's why we're artists."

problems

By the Military Industrial Complex and the politicians who represent only Corporate America, instead of 'We The People.' While other industrialized nations give their citizens a national health care, the U.S. gives it citizens excuses for obscene record military spending, above health care for it's citizens.

Anyone who is working for a living or even involuntarily unemployed, any wage level, should have the FULL cost of all their health care needs met first BEFORE any other tax is placed against them. Not a year later, after people have done without due to the shake-down they received from the government to cover the military industrial complex.

To not take care of working Americans full health care, only to tax them to pay for the military industrial complex instead, is wrong, immoral, and a fraud against working people.

If politicians really want to rebuild a great nation of prosperity, the first $50,000 should be exempt from any income tax period.

1. The rich are using the government to steal our money (and the money from our kids & grandkids as the national debt is carried forward). There IS a class war, we lost, and "wealth redistribution" is underway.

2. See "Why We Fight"
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436971/

The Rich invoke the Government to give their activities the aura of legality and the two work hand-in-hand, to supress any dissedent feelings through a variety of methods. Sometimes, by laws, sometimes by violence, sometimes by convincing people they have a choice...

I mean I watch CSPAN and I see the patina that has been used to cover the Congress to invoke feelings in people of awe and reverance. All the rules and honorary titles bestowed upon Congressmen are the same old game the ruling classes have always used.

Great Post!

:kick: and Nom'd!

now it's 35%(?)

CEOs make 400x an average worker

balance of trade very bad

more lobbyists and campaign money than ever

etc etc

it all adds up to the WORST environment for the average working person in 100 or so years.

You're not wrong.... the game has always been to balance the forces favoring the people vs the ruling elite & corporations. The people are really getting fucked at this moment.....

If the MIC want their wars, they can solicit corporate America for money. I'm tired of giving them mine :mad::mad::grr::grr: