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- liquisoft, on 04/15/2009, -7/+721Actual, original artwork by the actual artist: http://mibi.deviantart.com/art/Death-and-Taxes-200 ...
FFS people, link to a place where people can get credit for their work. - anexanhume, on 04/15/2009, -22/+492Shouldn't it just be a big trash can with a few politicians wildly grabbing dollars out of the air to stuff in their own pockets?
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7499/jpge.jpg - dist0rtedwave, on 04/15/2009, -14/+315That is damn near unreadable. At least on a 13 inch laptop. How am I supposed to know what to bitch about?
- logpony, on 04/15/2009, -3/+267dugg for labeling an arrow....hahaha
- JohnEHubertz, on 04/15/2009, -81/+273This is appalling.
Nasa - eviscerated, and off-the-map black "intelligence" budget up 18%
I'm damn glad I stayed a Hippie - protesting the next war already, and doing it since 1974 - netneutrality, on 04/15/2009, -1/+180Classified: $45bn.
Office of Governmental Ethics: $0.013bn.
Hmmm. - nymbot, on 04/15/2009, -4/+163WallStats, where you can actually buy this wonderful poster, is banned from Digg.
http://www.wallstats.com/blog/banned-from-diggcom/ - Coven, on 04/15/2009, -3/+137For 13 inches i'd be willing to pay a hell of a lot more than $1000
Oh wait, we're talking about a laptop? - chuckDontSurf, on 04/15/2009, -3/+113Photoshopped.
- kiley481, on 04/15/2009, -2/+107I love how the graphic denoting the 'Global' War on Terror is just a big map of Iraq.
- Scrappy1850, on 04/15/2009, -6/+101i buried him for his racist suppresion of "black intelligence"
- AndrewMoyer, on 04/15/2009, -2/+96"annnnnnnnnd...... it's gone."
/south park - havek23, on 04/15/2009, -5/+9368% military, 33% non-military
101% rounding ftl - kingcam, on 04/15/2009, -8/+90Military spending -- 68%. There is the problem, this is why the country is *****. Do you know how many time over that could pay for National Heathcare? For alternative fuels? For an actual first world education system?
- kd420, on 04/15/2009, -7/+85Holy hell, more than 2/3 of the budget is on defense? This can't be right, can it? Seriously, 3000 people died on 9/11, so in the ten years following the attacks, how many trillions are being poured onto the debt? This is like is your house got robbed, spending your entire earnings and taking on huge debt to build a moat around your house. No one likes the idea of terrorists killing innocent civilians, but loading every citizen with tens of thousands of dollars of debt, inflating the currency, without really even solving anything is ridiculous. Really scary how a country can be riled up so much that it ends up destroying itself, it makes you wonder if that was the terrorist plan all along.
- dygel, on 04/15/2009, -41/+113Mislabeled. This is an illustration of how the government spends the money we borrow from other nations. Our tax revenue is applied to the interest on the national debt.
- Fountainhead76, on 04/15/2009, -1/+65Politicians should have to make a graph like this before elections so people could see how they intend to spend.
- UnFriendlyFire, on 04/15/2009, -19/+80Better picture of how the government spends your money:
http://www.treehugger.com/toilet-llqq-001.jpg
(You saw this coming) - danielrh9, on 04/15/2009, -14/+72Whoever the president may be, no matter where the money may come from, it troubles me to see Defense getting such a large chunk of the pie as compared to other areas.
- BoneheadFarker, on 04/15/2009, -4/+55MSPainted...
- liquisoft, on 04/15/2009, -6/+52(pssst. It's probably a netbook.)
- Amezis, on 04/15/2009, -1/+44That's ***** up. I mean, Digg itself has the Digg store, so by that logic, Digg should ban itself...
- backflipper, on 04/15/2009, -2/+44@kingcam:
That's 68% of the discretionary budget. It is 25% of the total budget. To put national health care in perspective, the current government run health care (medicare and medicaid) costs 624 billion per year. Medicare covered 43 million people in 2007, and medicaid covered less than 10 million. So that is about 53 million people, or almost $11,774 per person per year. If we extrapolate that out to 300 million people, actually let's extrapolate it out to 200 million people to take into account further efficiencies and healthier people and we get $2.35 trillion dollars per year.
To summarize, no, $799 billion will not cover national health care "many times over" - OmniMe, on 04/15/2009, -6/+47It's called a MacBook you tard
- anexanhume, on 04/15/2009, -1/+42. <-- This is my friend, point. He'd like to meet you ;)
- mibi, on 04/15/2009, -0/+38Here is the original zoomable source
http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/
btw, I'm the author of the poster. - inactive, on 04/15/2009, -12/+48I don't know why you're being dugg down. As a libertarian, I agree with you.
Maybe it's because it's fashionable to call left-of-center people "dirty hippies." - zantos420, on 04/15/2009, -0/+35strangely i feel like playing command & conquer now
- SnakeLemma, on 04/15/2009, -5/+40Imagine spending half the money spent on national defense on education...
- snareguy17, on 04/15/2009, -0/+34No there's a hefty, ***** fee.
- brb1031, on 04/15/2009, -1/+34NASA Budget went down in every category (Science, Ops, Exploration, Aeronautics), except a brand-new category called "Cross Agency Support +777%"...
- ipwnall123, on 04/15/2009, -0/+26One of the last paragraphs:
"In the meantime, I have found a home with the Reddit community. They appreciate the work that I do and I enjoying finding great material there."
Shoot, I'll email support. - jon31rm, on 04/15/2009, -11/+37Even though that's one of the very few things on that chart that's authorized by the Constitution?
- inactive, on 04/15/2009, -18/+43basically the government takes everyone's money and then spends it on things that involves invading and oppressing foreign countries.
- Jhonka, on 04/15/2009, -1/+25Interesting to note:
Defense: 7% hike
Not really that big an increase compared to other areas. Just always been huge.
Legislative Branch: +16%
Hopefully that means they can get off their asses now.
Department of Commerce: +18%
Census hike; but Economic development down 51%. WTF.
NEW Corp of Engineers for building ***** like levees. Good outlook for you engineering majors!
NO increase for Education.
Department of Veterans Affairs is almost as big as education, and is larger than Homeland Security. I'm all for taking care of our veterans, but this chart helps illustrate how much of our time is attempting to recoup whats lost in the wars we fight.. - dafragsta, on 04/15/2009, -0/+24You think that was for 9/11? I agree that defense spending is insanely overemphasized and takes money away from scientific and domestic pursuits, but defense spending has been this disproportionate since the dawn of the cold war.
- inactive, on 04/15/2009, -2/+26If it ain't broke, why run out and drop a few hundred bucks on a new one?
- abstracthuman, on 04/15/2009, -0/+23Dugg just for the effort.
Now going to look for the "War on Drugs."
Edit: I might be too drunk on a legal drug to do that. - CanadianCheese, on 04/15/2009, -10/+32I'm left of center. I dugg him down because he appears to be wrong. NASA Budget went up, Intelligence down.
- kelly, on 04/15/2009, -5/+27If we were still under the Bush administration... the headline wouldn't be so generic
- verynegative, on 04/15/2009, -0/+21The world would love the U.S.
- InfiniteNothing, on 04/15/2009, -1/+22The original is zoomable
http://www.wallstats.com/zoom/ - jlm408, on 04/15/2009, -1/+22This chart makes me feel incredibly unproductive.
- covertbadger, on 04/15/2009, -1/+22I assume you're referring to the Grace Commission findings, which are now decades out of date. Annual Federal debt payments account for about a quarter of current Federal individual income tax revenue.
This year's budget proposal, for instance, shows that in 2008 the interest paid was 253 billion, whereas individual income tax revenues were 1146 billion (or 1.15 trillion). The 2009 numbers are shown in the linked image, but are roughly the same.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/asset.aspx?AssetId=7 ... - pathouston22, on 04/15/2009, -13/+33Oh yeah, Macbooks. Sorry, not all of us are use to paying $1000 for 13 inches.
- Hardataq, on 04/15/2009, -2/+22I think this is the more appropriate image
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b28/hardataq/oba ... - Stingwolf, on 04/15/2009, -0/+19Freedom costs a buck o five.
- inactive, on 04/15/2009, -0/+18free from who?
- inactive, on 04/15/2009, -1/+19Yes, it's called the "Military-Industrial Complex". It started under President Eisenhower, specifically for WW2. He gave a pretty sober warning at the time, and I'm sure he would hate himself if he saw what it has become today. He warned that it could cause excessive political influence and end up draining all of our resources, send us on wars of choice, and possibly (or ultimately?) lead to fascism.
Watch the documentary "Why We Fight" to see how this happened, and how your money is being drained away by the likes of Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Blackwater, etc. for useless things we do not need (such as the F-22 Raptor fighter jet).
In 1947, the Department of Defense was created from what once was called the Department of War. You can see how Orwellian things became quickly after the creation of the military-industrial complex. War becomes "defense". - holzp, on 04/15/2009, -1/+18Because not one penny of Google's money comes from threatening people with jail for non-compliance.
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