files/thumbnails/91c01872-ad96-11dd-a0aa-000255111976.png 2007-01-10T10:23:00-05:00 89a1c8b71007773501100782e7500001 89a1c8b71009510801100c9bb4360058 0 27 1.0 27 27.0 2009-12-15T13:02:44-05:00 Where have your tax dollars gone? 2007-01-10T10:23:00-05:00 89a1c8b71007773501100782e7500001 true 91c6dc70ad9611dda0aa000255111976 89a1c8b71009510801100c9bb443005a Bookmark 2008-11-08T10:53:43-05:00 What is this spike in housing assistance? 2007-01-10T20:34:15-05:00 89a1c8b710076d430110076d6cc00001 false 89a1c8b7100ec45701100eca7b0a0001 89a1c8b7100ec45701100eca7b500002 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:09-05:00 Huge variability...is this politics-driven or weather-driven? 2007-01-10T20:51:18-05:00 89a1c8b710076d430110076d6cc00001 false 89a1c8b7100ed6d701100eda18710001 89a1c8b7100ed6d701100eda18b00002 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:09-05:00 Veterans benefits are going down, percentage-wise. 2007-01-11T01:20:07-05:00 89a1c8b71009510801100c6d76f50002 false 89a1c8b7100eef7801100fd0334a001d 89a1c8b7100eef7801100fd03353001e Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:09-05:00 Health care costs exploded in 1990, and then just kept rising. (Compare veterans benefit hospitals, which grow linearly.) 2007-01-23T13:36:18-05:00 89a1c8b710076d430110076d6cc00001 false 89ade5ae104fee3a0110503e82d00072 89ade5ae104fee3a0110503e82d80073 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:09-05:00 Spaceflight funding peaks long before the Apollo landings and never recovers. (Guess someone didn't spin that "one small step" well enough?) 2007-01-23T13:57:49-05:00 89a1c8b710076d430110076d6cc00001 false 89ade5ae104fee3a0110505235ec00b8 89ade5ae104fee3a0110505235f300b9 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:10-05:00 Re: Spaceflight funding. Had the Soviet Union continued its space expansion to the extent that seemed to compete with the USA's, you can bet our spending would have skyrocketed. 2007-01-23T16:58:27-05:00 89ade5ae104fee3a011050f5f0040137 false 89ade5ae104fee3a011050f795830140 2008-11-08T08:10:10-05:00 The national defense expenses in 1968 and 2004 are roughly equal, but the difference in percentage is enormous. Once wonder if this leads to less resentment for spending money? 2007-01-24T05:11:20-05:00 89a1c8b710076d430110076d6cc00001 false 89ade5ae104fee3a011053969001049c 89ade5ae104fee3a011053969009049d Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:10-05:00 It would be interesting to cross-reference with political periods (i.e. dem/rep presidencies) and major geopolitical events 2007-01-24T07:03:11-05:00 89a1c8b710076d430110076d6cc00001 false 89ade5ae104fee3a011053fcf50804e2 2008-11-08T08:10:10-05:00 It would also be interesting to see this as a % of GDP, and/or per-capita... directionally it's obvious and makes sense that it'd trend up and to the right in aggregate with growth in both GDP and population... 2007-01-24T12:14:29-05:00 89a1c8b710076d430110076d6cc00001 false 89ade5ae104fee3a01105519f6430759 2008-11-08T08:10:10-05:00 Are these numbers using inflation adjusted dollars? If so, what year is the base? 2007-01-25T17:33:47-05:00 89a1c8b710076d430110076d6cc00001 false 89ade5ae1055f49801105b64a58404ff 89ade5ae1055f49801105b64a58b0500 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:10-05:00 Yeah, this is inflation adjusted, base = 2000. 2007-01-26T01:08:40-05:00 89a1c8b71007773501100782e7500001 false 89ade5ae1055f49801105d051baa0639 89ade5ae1055f49801105d051bb1063a Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:10-05:00 this would be perfect for Swivel 2007-01-26T10:22:57-05:00 89a1c8b710076d430110076d6cc00001 false 89ade5ae1055f49801105f009279075d 89ade5ae1055f49801105f009281075e Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:10-05:00 this graph is far from accurate 2007-01-30T22:30:38-05:00 89a1c8b710076d430110076d6cc00001 false 89ade5ae105f6ac40110763438530cf6 89ade5ae105f6ac401107634385a0cf7 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:11-05:00 How is it inaccurate? Do you think the data is wrong or misleading? Is the graph itself the problem? 2007-01-30T23:12:28-05:00 89ade5ae104fee3a01105226ea860350 false 89ade5ae105f6ac40110765a857a0d09 89ade5ae105f6ac40110765a85810d0a Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:11-05:00 The amplitude here is HUGE and dwarfs everything in its category, in fact it is about 1/4 of Social Security in the peak year of 1990. 2007-02-15T15:15:08-05:00 false 89ade5ae10a2cb5f0110c70b43970954 89ade5ae10a2cb5f0110c70b439f0955 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:11-05:00 Appears to be the Savings and Loan bailout cost 2007-02-20T12:30:42-05:00 false 89ade5ae10cc74c20110e0348313027d 89ade5ae10cc74c20110e034831b027e Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:11-05:00 This appears to be the SNL scandal. 2007-02-28T14:37:39-05:00 89ade5ae107f4d06011090c473a70529 false 89ade5ae10eff0f0011109db9df904a2 89ade5ae10eff0f0011109db9e0104a3 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:11-05:00 Very nice. It would be useful to have these options: 1. Log scale 2. Eliminate arbitrary items (especially large ones such as Social Security and Medicare and Interest) so that the relative sizes of the remaining ones can be more easily seen. 2007-03-09T17:35:21-05:00 false 89ade5ae112de16d011138d78be20680 2008-11-08T08:10:11-05:00 Re log scale: only when viewing single item, obviously. 2007-03-09T18:19:59-05:00 false 89ade5ae112de16d0111390067bb0688 2008-11-08T08:10:11-05:00 Can we expect a similar spike after the Iraqi war gets wrapped up? 2007-06-25T10:08:07-04:00 89ade5ae1302767d011324ab49be05fc false 89ade5ae13535b8901136335f79f0487 89ade5ae13535b8901136335fa3c0488 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:11-05:00 What year was the S&L bailout...that might be it. 2007-07-17T17:26:58-04:00 false 89ade5ae13b70bee0113d613a6e00b2a 89ade5ae13b70bee0113d613a9770b2b Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:11-05:00 Since this is only budgeted expenses, it ignores the entire Iraq war, which sits outside the budget in its own special category. 2007-09-11T12:15:52-04:00 false 89ade5ae14e1dd2c0114f55af57607f1 2008-11-08T08:10:11-05:00 Does anyone have data on war expenses? Or know where to find it? 2007-09-11T21:09:44-04:00 false 89ade5ae14e1dd2c0114f743ba500870 89ade5ae14e1dd2c0114f743bcbb0871 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:11-05:00 Actually that doesn't mean much in context. 2007-10-09T14:39:27-04:00 false 89ade5ae156cadda0115861078630b94 89ade5ae156cadda011586107ad60b95 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:12-05:00 The spike in Housing Assistance for 1985 appears to be a data error. Here are current dollar outlays (in $millions) for Housing Assistance for FY1984-FY1986: FY1984 FY1985 FY1986 9,932 11,200 12279 These data are from Table 11-3 of the FY2007 Historical Tables of the Budget of the US, p.220. 2007-11-13T16:39:58-05:00 89ade5ae15ce1b580115fc9b775213a7 false 89ade5ae1639bc0701163af4513a00e3 89ade5ae1639bc0701163af453f300e4 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:12-05:00 test 2007-12-03T17:35:33-05:00 89ade5ae1590889f0115a4f7061504b8 false 89ade5ae168cc31c0116a226662e0715 89ade5ae168cc31c0116a22669210716 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:12-05:00 What is driving the spike in "General Purpose Fiscal Assistance" in 1973? You're near the end of the Nixon administration; Cheney is Assistant Director of the Cost of Living Council from 1971–73 and becomes Deputy Assistant to the president from 1974–1975; Rumsfield was a member of the President's Cabinet from 71-72--am I cynical to think that they found a way to leverage these funds for subsidies to industries favorable to the administration? Or, less cynically, is this because the Office of Economic Opportunity was dismantled by Nixon in 1973, and many of its programs were transferred to other departments--perhaps the departments represented by this band in the graph? Still, I would think all of that would fall under the "Human Resources" category. 2008-04-29T12:36:53-04:00 false 89ade5ae1995071c01199b0b380f0e41 89ade5ae1995071c01199b0b3c9c0e42 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:12-05:00 National defense just ain't correct. The federal government spent 50% of its budget on the warmachine 2004, and today it is about 65% according to the famous circle diagram explosions called "Death and taxes" that are out on the internet. References: http://mibi.deviantart.com/art/Death-and-Taxes-9410862 http://mibi.deviantart.com/art/Death-and-Taxes-2007-39894058 2008-05-03T10:40:40-04:00 false 89ade5ae19a98d590119af3a3e63047c 89ade5ae19a98d590119af3a6888047f Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:12-05:00 Sorry, but the data here IS correct. The Death and Taxes charts don't include huge expenditures like Social Security, Medicare, etc. I think they may also leave out interest on the national debt. Death and Taxes calls those mandatory expenses. Their interest is in discretionary spending. While it is certainly legitimate to look at just the subset of spending that Congress can easily change every year, that is only a partial view of where our government is spending money. So yes, if you want to say Social Security and Medicare are irrelevant to the budget conversation, you can then say that military spending is at or near a record high. Including all spending, discretionary and mandatory, is not as helpful to the anti-war cause. But it IS extremely useful to look at for anyone concerned with OVERALL government spending. Military spending is a fair and reasonable topic for debate. Have at it. Just don't forget that from a purely fiscal point of view, the real elephant in the room is Social Security and Medicare. 2008-05-03T13:16:54-04:00 false 89ade5ae19a98d590119afc947df065a 89ade5ae19a98d590119afc94eda065b Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:12-05:00 so what units are these??? if you don't mention units these are just worthless numbers! and the graph is useless. did you sleep during your physics classes? 2008-07-11T08:19:54-04:00 false 89ade5ae1afd68ea011b12102b810f56 89ade5ae1afd68ea011b1210313b0f57 Bookmark 2008-11-08T08:10:12-05:00 Would it be possible to overlay/label (with vertical bars) the presidential administrations? It would be interesting to see who was president at a given time on the chart. 2008-08-07T11:43:12-04:00 false 89ade5ae1b944136011b9dd600190702 2008-11-08T08:10:12-05:00 I'm having a hard time comparing this visualization with the one at: http://www.truemajority.org/oreos/ Can anyone help answer why the military's share of the budget looks so much different? 2008-12-29T10:29:23-05:00 false 785bc95ed5bd11dd9e89000255111976 74f4fd8ad5bd11dd9e89000255111976 Bookmark 2008-12-29T10:29:23-05:00 It seems very unlikely this is corrected for with population or GDP (GDP correction being preferable). If not, this plot isn't worth much since every economy that grows would have an upward trend with GDP since many services must grow accordingly. For instance, the cost of living has increased so social security must also increase. Personally, I'd like social security phased out as well as many other social programs but I don't think using a misrepresentation is, in the long run, useful for making that case. (I'm sure there is still significant growth even after correcting for GDP... so why not be straightforward?) 2009-03-06T11:07:23-05:00 false e105d24e0a6811deafdf000255111976 daf579ea0a6811dea427000255111976 Bookmark 2009-03-06T11:07:23-05:00 Nice way of depicting the expenses! 2009-08-13T08:40:32-04:00 1bac51746d0c11de870d000255111976 false 7dc02038880611deb21d000255111976 121.242.99.226 7d7b3ae0880611deb21d000255111976 Bookmark 2009-08-13T08:40:32-04:00 The spike in deposit insurance is legitimate... the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF) went into the red during these years, until it raised premiums and recovered in 1993. Details here: http://wfhummel.cnchost.com/depositinsurance.html 2009-08-25T09:59:17-04:00 0d0042aa207411deac8f000255111976 false 7adb5202917f11de9e38000255111976 129.42.208.183 7ab11118917f11de9e38000255111976 Bookmark 2009-10-21T19:40:23-04:00 Nice nice nice 2009-10-21T19:14:23-04:00 false 78704c30be9711debfe7000255111976 131.107.0.75 7844edc4be9711debfe7000255111976 Bookmark false 2009-10-21T19:14:23-04:00 Why there is a spike? 2009-10-24T22:40:35-04:00 6b9c916ac0c911de88f4000255111976 false c5ad80b0c10f11de8745000255111976 131.107.0.86 c569bad8c10f11deb6e5000255111976 Bookmark false 2009-10-24T22:40:35-04:00 Why there is a spike? 2009-10-25T00:38:50-04:00 6b9c916ac0c911de88f4000255111976 false 4ad3bc4ac12011dea1ee000255111976 131.107.0.75 4a985da8c12011dea1ee000255111976 Bookmark false 2009-10-25T00:38:50-04:00 Why there is a spike? 2009-10-26T16:26:55-04:00 false e778cb28c26d11de8f46000255111976 131.107.0.85 e745f284c26d11de8f46000255111976 Bookmark false 2009-10-26T16:26:55-04:00 Why there is a spike? 2009-11-03T13:24:17-05:00 false 18dd673ac8a611deb4a6000255111976 131.107.0.75 189cffa6c8a611de81f1000255111976 Bookmark false 2009-11-03T13:24:17-05:00 no answer till now 2009-11-10T16:13:48-05:00 false f01ccf28ce3d11de91d7000255111976 198.82.30.252 ef9f1024ce3d11de91d7000255111976 Bookmark false 2009-11-10T16:13:48-05:00