Thursday, September 30, 2010

Speaking of elections

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/09/shouldnt_taxpayers_get_a_recei.html
I thought this was a really interesting idea-a receipt for the taxes you pay over the course of the year (this is of course making the assumption that federal government revenues are fungible, so that while a specific percentage of your salary officially goes to social security and medicare, that's not exactly put in a lockbox). You'll need to do some basic multiplication to get your actual figures, but this is good for comparison's sake.

Anyway, is there anything that strikes you as unexpected? Anything that is higher than you would have thought? Lower?

I was rather content to learn how much of my money is going to things that I at least don't think are actively evil.

Also, apparently, this is one of the things that people are often far off on (I certainly was repeatedly surprised) so before voting, education!

1 comment:

  1. Very cool. Thanks for finding and sharing this, Samuel.

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