Calculate Where Your Tax Dollars Go

The link below is a page on the whitehouse.gov website that will calculate where your tax dollars go based on what you have paid in or some common income levels.  I found it very interesting and informative to see how my tax bill is divided up.

Your 2010 Federal Taxpayer Receipt

I think we need to quit our bellyaching about Foreign Aid and a bunch of other smaller programs. Their bite on the Federal budget is minimal.

Below is a link to a somewhat pessimistic article about the tax calculator form Slate.com
Can I Get a Receipt for That? An idealistic—and probably hopeless—plan to educate Americans about the budget by sending them itemized “tax receipts.