How is the US Government funded?
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oh, only one trillion!  that's great!\n\nthere are also capital gains taxes, corporation taxes, tariffs on internationally-traded goods, federal sales taxes (sales tax usually limited to states), and a variety of user fees, license fees, administrative fees, and so forth.\n\nI saw one person say we could print more money... that's one of those "gosh, how come no one's thought of that?" type deals.  A good course in macroeconomics would tell you why that can't happen, but basically it's supply and demand.  If you flooded the money market with dollars, the value of the dollar would plummet just like the Mark did in post-WWI Germany when they tried that trick.  Money is just a representation of a country's ability to produce goods and services, and each dollar is a fraction of our economic capacity.  More paper just means each piece of paper is a smaller fraction of the whole thing, so it's like trying to make more pie by slicing the same pie into more pieces.  Doesn't work- it just makes a mess of the pie you've got.\n\nI mean, if you really wanted to get down and dirty, the fed has few limitations on what it can collect taxes on.  But the thing is, where would that trillion be cut from?  Everyone has a few programs they don't care for... some think the military should be smaller, some think regulatory agencies like ADA or HUD could be done away with... but the consequences of slashing a program often outweigh the benefits of tax relief.  Like if you slashed HUD funding, you'd have rampant homelessness, which means higher crime rates, which means more expense in law enforcement and the economic impact of property value depreciation wherever the homeless congregate.  And slashing defense could really lead to some terrible things, because military power balance is just as vital as economic power balance in this world.\n\nPeople at the local level love talking about eliminating property tax, which is their big money-maker, but the bottom line is that the money's gotta come from somewhere, and budget cuts tend not to be the answer.  I worked for a town manager in a town where the people elected a council that slashed taxes, and everyone was screaming to have their programs back.  None of those legislators that cut the taxes were re-elected, because you don't realize how important governemnt programs are until they're gone and you're left with all these solutionless problems.  Believe me, as an insider, that all public programs are in some form or another a response to a real and present problem that people decided was worth investing public money into to solve.  Eliminate the program, and the problem comes back full-force.  And the Reagan concept that if you shrink government, the problems will solve themselves as the would-be tax dollars are redistributed in the free market.  It doesn't work that way because the free market is extremely short-sighted and self-centered.  Government has its flaws, but its stated purpose is to keep society running smoothly, and there has yet to be a workable alternative.
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This is from the US mint's web site:\n\n"Since Congress created the United States Mint on April 2, 1792, it has grown tremendously. The United States Mint receives more than $1 billion in annual revenues. As a self-funded agency, the United States Mint turns revenues beyond its operating expenses over to the General Fund of the Treasury."\n\nThere is a lot of good info on the US Mint there, it explains how they fund themselves.
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the medicare money has been used by every president and every congress for their major source of funding, if you try to pin this just on Bush you will end up looking like a moron. Most of the money goes into the general fund and is used for anything and everything.
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billions and billions of us dollars
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The federal government keeps all tax money paid.  If no return is filed, assuming there was a refund due, the money just goes into the general fund.\n\nSocial Security is going bankrupt because congress has been raiding the social security trust fund for years to pay for pet programs without appearing to increase the budget deficit.  Yes, both democratic and republican congresses have done this.  Officially it's a "loan" from the trust fund, but it never gets paid back, and the money doesn't earn interest (which it would have if it had been in the trust fund).\nSocial Security isn't going bankrupt because there are too many baby boomers going to retire at the same time, it's going bankrupt because the congressmen we've elected have robbed us blind.\n\nBTW, there *is* a surplus in both taxes and SS every year from illegal immigrants who use fraudulent IDs.  Kicking them all out would end that surplus, and both SS and the federal budget would be even worse off than they are now.
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god knows what the heck they are doing. The government don't tell us how they are spending the money completely. Thats how corrupt the government is keeping secrets of the so hard earned money is being wasted to secret projects.
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The U.S. had quite a bit of money at one time. And as all big wigs with money and clout do, they feel the need to put their two cents in pretty much everywhere. The American government feels they are strong enough to handle anything. That is so untrue. They stick their noses in foreign business and try to correct it (helping to form a new government in Iraq) and all the while, totally forget about their own citizens. We still have homeless veterans, We still have hungry children, we still have an awful drug problem. But is America spending their dollars to help those folks? Of course not. It's rediculous. A man once said to some folks, "Clean up your own backyard before you come talking about mine." America should listen to that statement.
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United States Gov./treasury
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NO you do not have to pay to get government grants.Your local library has books on Gov. grants.Or go to amazon.com and buy your own book.
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We in the military work for civilian bosses that are appointed by the President and approved by Congress.  The President gives the orders, but Congress controls the budget.   It's the people's money that funds us after all. Furthermore, we are an extension of the government's political strength, often used to secure geopolitical goals rather than strictly to defend our country. As such, we will never be free of political machinations.
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Congress or the U.S. Treasury.  Congress keeps ripping money from the Treasury to fund wacko things, and Congress itself is full (currently, hopefully these lost their jobs) of people who will rape the people and the government of everything they have, right before going out to campaign for reelection, while stating how good they've been.
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You are asking questions about things that are not paid for out of the same budgets.\n\nThe United States federal goverments first, and basically only job when this country was created was defense.  \n\nUntil recent times - Defense was the largest percentage of the total federal budget by far.\n\nAs time has gone on other things have been added to it. Including what takes up the majority of the Federal Budget these days.  These things that have been added are "required spending" budget items.  These are things that no matter what - they have to be paid.  This includes Social Security, Medicare, Medicade, interest, payroll, and other such expenses that deal with the day to day operation of the Federal government.\n\nDefense comes out of what is called discretionary spending.  As would anything the Feds spend on Education.\n\nTo answer your question directly - defense is about 20 percent, and Medicare/Medicaid (health) combined are going to also be about 20 percent.  Education is going to come out of the rest of the discretionary budget - not sure what it is off the top of my head - but its a very small percentage.\n\nSource 2 below has the info from the above paragraph - source 1 is the page that pdf came from, which has alot of other charts and graphs put out the US House of Representatives.\n\nSource 3 covers some historical data on the Defense spending.\n\nDefense is only paid for by the Feds.\n\nEducation on the other hand is going to be paid for by each state.  So to answer that question - you would have to look at each state.  There is many other Health Care programs that are paid for at the state level also - again - not something that can be answered here - way to many different things.\n\nBasically - the Feds pay for Social Security, Defense, Medicare, Medicaid, and things that cross states borders like Interstates.  They also spend large chunks of change on things like Disaster Relief.  \n\nStates pay for Education.\n\n.. and for the most part - employers pay for Health Care in this country.
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Many states capital budgets are  primarily funded through the issuance of state general obligation bonds. Items funded in capital budgets often include land acquisition, repair, renovation and construction of state facilities; acquisition, construction and repair of state parks, schools, trails, interpretive centers, campground facilities, forests, wildlife management areas, dams and flood control structures.\n\nLease pruchase contracts are also used to purchase vehicles, equipment and other large non real estate purchase.
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In the United States:\n\nhttp://grants.gov/
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Depends on what state you're in. Different states have different setups for funding.
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How can you solder the government?
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ALL THE TIME! the governement uses borrowed money fron the centrel bank to pay for all of it's short commings. And here is a little secret: do you know that the green in your wallet is only worth the paper it is printed on? Yes, The american peoples money is worth NOTHING! the gold backing system wsa abandoned in the 60's! So all the money in the bank, and elsewhere, is worth nothing! (unless you have gold) So our borowed money is jut money that the centrel pank prints out, and "loans" to the governement.