2015 Federal Budget Pie Chart Template
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1
2WHERE YOUR
INCOME TAX
2015
U.S. FEDERAL BUDGET
FISCAL YEAR
MONEY REALLY GOES
ToTal ouTlays
Non-MILITARY: 55%
$1,580 BILLION
and
( F e d e r a l F u n d s )
$2,887 Billion
$218
billion
•Treasury,incl.20% interest
on debt ($91 B)
$1,247
• Government personnel
43%
• Justice Dept.
• State Dept. (partial)
billion
• Int. Sec.Assist. (partial)
HUMAN
• Health/Human Services
• NASA (50%)
• Soc. Sec.Administration
• Judicial
• Education Dept.
8%
RESOURCES
• Legislative
• Food/Nutrition programs
• Allowances (proposals)
• Housing & Urban Dev.
GENERAL
• other general govt.
• Labor Dept.
GOVERNMENT
• Earned Inc/Child Credits
• Health Insurance Credits
• other human resources
$115
4% PHYSICAL
billion
RESOURCES
• Agriculture
• Interior
• Transportation
• Homelnd Sec.
($8B, partial)
• HUD
• Commerce
• Energy (non-military)
• Environmental Protection
27%
• Nat. Science Fdtn.
18%
• Army Corps Engineers
• Fed. Comm. Commission
CURRENT
• other physical resources
PAST
$521
MILITARY
MILITARY
$786
billion
billion
• Veterans’ Benefits
Total Outlays DoD $584 billion:
$157 billion
• Military Personnel $142 billion
• Interest on national
• Operation & Maint. $228 billion
debt $364 billion (80%
• Procurement $91 billion
est. to be created by
• Research & Dev. $63 billion
military spending)
• Construction $10 billion
• Family Housing $2 billion
• Revolving Management $1 billion
• “Overseas Contingency” $47 billion
Non-DoD military spending includes:*
• Retiree Pay/Healthcare $83 billion
MILITARY: 45%
$1,307 BILLION
and
• DoE nuke weapons/clean-up $19 billion
• NASA (50%) $9 billion
• Internl. Security Asst. $14 billion
• Homeland Secur. (military) $41 billion
HOW THESE FIGURES
• State Dept. (partial) $5 billion
the military portion smaller.
• FBI military $12 billion
WERE DETERMINED
• “Opportunity, Growth, Security Initiative”
C
allowances $17
*Analysts differ on how much of the debt stems from the military;
urrent military” includes Dept. of Defense ($584
• other $1 billion
other groups estimate 50% to 60%. We use 80% because we
billion) and the military portion from other
*analysis includes non-DoD activity based on cod-
believe if there had been no military spending most (if not all) of
departments as noted in current military box above
ing and the military nature of activities, such as
armed border control, DoD space flights, etc.
the national debt would have been eliminated.
($202 billion). Funding for the war on terror is listed
as “Overseas Contingency Operations” and totals $47
in this breakdown. “Past military” represents veterans’
benefits plus 80% of the interest on the debt.* For
Government Deception
Social Security,
further explanation, please go to .
retirement,
Medicare 38%
These figures are from an analysis of detailed tables
The pie chart (right) is the government
in the Analytical Perspectives book of the Budget of
view of the budget.This is a distortion of
Social
the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2015. The
how our income tax dollars are spent be-
programs
figures are Federal funds, which do not include Trust
21%
cause it includes Trust Funds (e.g., Social Se-
funds — such as Social Security — that are raised
curity), and most of the past military spend-
ing is not distinguished from nonmilitary
and spent separately from income taxes.
spending. For a more accurate representa-
What you pay (or don’t pay) by April 15, 2014,
tion of how your Federal income tax dollar
Net interest 6%
goes to the Federal funds portion of the budget. The
is really spent, see the large graph.
National defense,
government practice of combining Trust and Federal
Physical, human, commu-
veterans, foreign
nity development 9%
funds began during the Vietnam War, thus making the
affairs 24%
Law enforcement,
Source: 1040 Forms and Instructions 2013,
human needs portion of the budget seem larger and
general gov. 2%
Federal Outlays for FY 2012
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