what is the Federal Government spending our tax money on?
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A whole bunch of things\n\n-National defense\n-International aid\n-Research on space, energy and other things\n-Natural resources, such as water\n-Agriculture\n-Post office\n-Transportation (roads, etc.)\n-Education\n-Social services\n-Health care/Medicare\n-Income support, such as Social Security\n-Administration of the general bureaucracy\n-Interest on the debt
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The current debt of the U.S. government is:\n\n$8,332,524,238,683.71\n\nI wonder how we can spend so much, with the debt we're in.  What's our credit rating?
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People want to cut defense spending, I think, because they have no concept of what the Federal Budget actually looks like.  The 2007 budget is slated to spend about 17% on defense, while spending about 58% on entitlements and about 9% on interest on the debt.  We could cut military spending all day and it would hardly dent the budget.  We need to cut spending on entitlements (medicare, social security, medicaid, welfare) to get the budget and spending under control.\n\nIf you look at US military spending as a percentage of GDP, it is just about at an all-time recent low at 3.7% in 2003.  This is very low.  The USSR spent between 15% - 17% of it's GDP on the military in the mid 80's.
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It is mostly tax to fund the government
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No. I want the government to spend less in other areas in order to pay for these projects. Too much money is spent on meaningless pork. Too much money is wasted in fraud, waste and abuse. The government needs to do what most families have to do, namely tighten its belt and live within its budget.
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The IRS Budget in 2005 was $9.998 billion.\n\nThe requested appropriation for 2006 is $10.46 billion.
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How much money are you spending for gas, employees, and maintence
165507
Everyone complains about taxes and the fed govt getting involved in everything.  Then others want the feds, with tax money, to solve all the problems locally.  State and local govts should be taking care of their state, counties and cities.  Good people like you, along with local businesses and organizations should be involved in community issues.  Bush is one man.  The President runs an entire country.  People need to get off the attack Bush and hold him responsible for everything kick.  There are also your U.S. reps in Congress who obtain fed assistance and funds.  They spend a lot of our fed taxes on pork barrel projects.  Several hundred million for an unneeded bridge, several million here and there for parks, monuments and statues, millions for local research, grants and studies.  Those U.S. reps should be looking after your communities in need.
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Both have done nothing but spend for the last 6 years. Pork-barrel spending is up from $17.7Billion in 2000 to $29Billion in 2006, including $500,000 for a teapot museum, $450,000 to plant flowers in front of the Capitol, and $500,000 to study how berries grow in Alaska. Politicians are being charged with crimes almost weekly. Congress has spent more money building schools in Iraq than in America.\nEvery spending bill Congress and the Senate pass, the president signs.\n\nGreed and corruption have taken over our government, Republicans were once considered the party of fiscal responsibility. Those days are gone.
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In 2005 the government collected $1,303.4 billion in taxes, including personal and corporate income, excise taxes, and estate and gift taxes. That does not include $794 billion in social insurance "taxes."
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We spend less than one percent of the federal budget on foreign aid, one of the lowest percentages of any industrialized countries in the world.  Per person, Denmark spends more money.  \nAnd if you think our country is falling apart at the seams, you have never been to a poor country.  Even our poor are blessed compared to them.
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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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The government provides protection and services (think highways, police, etc) that contribute to our ability to earn money. It can generally be assumed that people earning money in this country are benefitting from these services, and thus taxes are levied upon them.
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it's more then $500 billion. While Congress has allocated over $250 billion in direct spending, large amounts of equipment, hazard pay, death payments, massive healthcare costs, and opportunity costs and basic loan interest to pay for all of that could easily top $600 to $1 trillion when the books come.
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The US NASA budget for 2005 is about 17 billion dollars. That is nothing much compared to the untold billions spent on such garbage as the current Iraq war in terms of return on investment.
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No, we pay taxes to the government.
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The current Republican administration has given us the biggest INCREASE in spending on social programs in our history, besides the increases in defense spending. For example, 15 MILLION MORE people are on Medicaid now than when George W. assumed office in January, 2001, and this has become our most expensive entitlement program. If that ain't liberal, what the hell is?