19 February 2007 - 16:12How to blow US$145.2 billion a year
An website called blog.thebudgetgraph.com made waves on Digg last week, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. It discusses the US Government’s $145 billion dollar budget for their war in Iraq, and things the money could be better spent on.
Data: From a Bread for the World study done in 2000. Or we can just give every tax payer their thousand dollars back. Unfortunately we don’t have time to entertain such flights of fancy like ending hunger or free health insurance. Don’t you know there is a war on?!
Be sure to check out the very cool Zoomify poster, too.
2 Comments | Tags: irl
19 Feb 2007 - 21:28
This obviously left-leaning study doesn’t mention the positive impacts of spending… the fact that the expenses work their way back into the economy, creating jobs, thus lowering poverty, thus needing less bread to give to these people for free etc.
and wtf my catchpa is 8 letters long… npxdipgc… and its impossible to see.
21 Feb 2007 - 16:42
I for one wouldn’t have minded having my $3,000 back, but I’m one of those crazy people who questions the right of government to lay and collect taxes.