Is there a way to see ,in detail, how and on what the government spends the tax dollars?
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Good luck, I've been looking for a site where you find how much federal money that was sent to the individual states throughout the history of the united states.***
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According to the annual report of the Medicare Trustees, expenditures in Medicare in FY 2003 totalled $280.8 billion. The federal fiscal year is from October 1, 2002 to Sept. 30, 2003. The annual report with 2003 information in it was issued in 2004.\n\nYou can review the budget document and the entire Medicare Trustees' Report at this site: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/Reports TrustFunds/downloads/tr2004.pdf\n\nIn researching this question, I learned that $330 billion was expended on Medicare in FY 2005. How about that!\n\nAnother site with good quality informaton on federal budget issues I've found is the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. This group is based in Washington, D. C.\n\nHope this helps!  Best wishes!
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I've gone down this path myself. There's no quick answer, but the data is definitely there. The Dept. of Treasury site has a series of PDF files for your examination.
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You can search it out for yourself at www.irs.gov.  Or H & R Block will search the information, for a fee.
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Here ya go!\n\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/funddocs/billeng.htm\n\nMake them into flash cards on index cards and go from there.
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their jurisdictions, and their source of budget money.
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It is mostly tax to fund the government
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To have deficit spending
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You can find the information at the Consumer Expenditure Survey of the Dept of Labor http://www.bls.gov/cex/ . The latest data is 2004, but check their metro area stats to get an idea of the expenditures that you can expect in various areas
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You should edit your question so that it is more clear.  Are you talking about how much Washington DC takes in from taxes?  They taxed about 4 trillion dollars last year, or roughly 20% of gross domestic product.
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As of about 30 seconds ago, about $241,160,000,000 has been spent based on estimates from congressional appropriations. The population of the United States currently is about 298,116,000. Therefore, the cost per capita is $808.95.
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I dont know. I really dont know. How would you find out? Government statistics? Not a good vote-getter! Even if you go back to previous governments , its still pretty hard to judge how scrupulous they were.They , of course , 'justify' the expense - 'defending freedom' , a 'cost-effective' health service,an aging population affecting pensions ( gosh , an aging population , that must have come as a surprise!). Bit of a rant here , but I feel that you understand!
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Hi,\n\nWell I dound an interesting website that gives an overview of the federal budget. Take a look at : http://www.federalbudget.com/  .\n\nGood Luck!
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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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billions and billions of us dollars
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Our tax dollars help pay for public services such as:\n\npolice departments\nfire departments\neducational system\nsocial security\nroads and bridges\nmedicare\nwelfare (BOO)\nmilitary\nand other stuff.. the list goes on and on.\n\nSo if you don't want to pay taxes stop using the things listed above.
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Depending on the grant usually they post who is giving the money and for what purpose. The feds have a website that I have listed its free and very informative