Death and Taxes: 2007 by mibi

Awesome!

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This art has been officially debunked by the above link.

Brilliant work. Thank you

thx for all the work and sharing it.
a shame to see how the numbers has changed from 2003 to 2007; 632 billion dollar???

OH MY GOD!

the link to thebudgetgraph leads to a site wich i think is not the right one, can u fix it?

Very Educational. Hmmmm...

All the health care for the sub par.

nice one! Great work!

*Begins cursing*

Coo00OOL

ahah, it's so real
good job!

If I would do this for Portugal I could make i t even larger LOL considering the sheer size of US the multiplication of fundings doesn't suprise me, what suprises me is the obvious graphicaly viewable majority of "National Defense" funding... that's fear for you

how long did it take you to make this?

wow, i need to buy the print for this thing, it's people like you that make complicated halfwit politics simple, great work. *claps*

Heh, just posted in the thread for last years version of this ah anyway. Great work! Haven't had time to rifle through all this text, anyway have you noted that a large part of the national debt is also because of military spendings.

My opinion on the military then, brace yourselves here comes opinions; A strong military is needed for a superpower like the US but it has grown vastly out of proportion to need. The problem with such a monstrous military funding is that what we have here is what dear old Eisenhower called a military industrial complex, which means that you cannot lower military spending because that would mean that people lose jobs, and the economy would suffer because of it as well as making people unhappy so that politicians lose votes. So we have a nation dependent on their military to support their economy. Russia has already fallen into that sinkhole and so has the US.

Much of the military spending of the US are spent on mostly useless Hi-tech hardware. When most of the potential enemies of the US have weaponry that couldn't even hope to glance the armour of a US Apache/ M1A2 Abrams , etc why do the US need to invest in even more hi tech things? China is so economically involved in the US that a war is economically impossible. North Korea may have a large army but their tech is subpar. Still the US invests in useless hardware like Hi Tech submarines and jet fighters (like the F-22) even though current hardware is quite enough to do the job.

I would not be so biased that I would say that this caused the Iraq war, but there is a saying.
''If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.''

The US has a military addiction, which worries me because when America goes ill it affects all of us.

Well that's my 5 cent.

The US is definitely better than China, Russia and other totalitarian states but the US aims to be a democracy and a state to look up to unlike other oligarchys. It's difficult to improve if you aren't aware of your shortcomings. I criticise USA because I care for her, not because I hate her.

This was copy pasted from a post in last years version of this.

This is simply amazing. I'm going to buy one for my Consumer Math class... It's that good.

How much hell did you go through rifling through government documents for this information?



It's interesting but sadly.. it's just too damn big to take it all in at once!

Excellent work. I'd like to make one for my own country but I don't have the patience.

now THAT is a piece of work. thanks for sharing.

Wow this is very informative and looks great too! It is unbelievable. It is hard to imagine that.

You did a good job on this, real thorough.
I would like to respond, however, to those who look upon this and feel disgusted about the amount we put into our military.

I would argue the following points.
1. A great amount of money is spent the development/production of weaponry designed to cause as little collateral damage and civilian death as possible.
2. We develop ways to protect ourselves from enemies more then we do to destroy them. This also includes technology that keeps out soldiers out of harm, such as AUVs.
3. Many of the contracts offered by the government are to domestic companies. This means that a chunk of those tax dollars are being put back into the economy.
4. Our soldiers are being paid for their service. This is in the form of monetary compensation and benefits. These include, but not limited to; health care via Veteran’s Affairs and Education tuition.

Believe what you will about how our resources are allocated, but I often am reminded of “Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum” or "if you want peace prepare for war" - Vegetius

Wow! I thought this was amazing when I found it on the web but it is nice to have a dA version that I can fave.

You totally need to be commended for the amount of work that you had to have put into this. It is an astounding visual!

wow this looks tedious....
absolutely fantastic work!

I just have to say, brilliant job of this massive visual representation of America's budget, Jesse Bachman!

we fund egypt?

learn something new every day

Nice artwork !!

I would really like to encourage you to include Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment, etc within the main graph. I understand your reasons for not including them, but I think this would give the viewer a better perspective on our nations spending as a whole, of which the "budget" is only a part of. After all, it doesn't matter if its budget spending or entitlement spending, it still my dollar and it would be interesting to see it visulised within the same graph.

Even an inset in one of the corners, showing how the budget spending relates to the globes of entitlement spending would be very cool.

thats some awesome hardwork that's gone into that. Gotta be impressed. Well done

holy guacamole, batman.

good work with that.

I'm surprised there aren't more comments on this than there really are. I think I found the link to thebudgetgraph.com from an add at this site. Awesome piece of work I must say.

I knew the Mubarak regime ranked the second in the military aid after Israel but I never looked up the actual numbers.. Keep the great work up!

This is absolutely fascinating! I'm completely floored at 1)the amount of effort put into this project, and 2)the amount of information put into this project, and 3)how aaaaall of this information is layed out in a manner that doesn't make the page look cluttered.

Man. This is too amazing! I'm going to send an email to my political science teacher with a link to your site. I bet he'd be more than interested in this poster.

Again, this is amazing! Fantastic work!

This will inform a lot of people about how we spend our budget. If this deviation falls into the wrong hands, the enemies of diverse human life will massacre all who oppose them.

I find it interesting. One of the more sure signs of an overextended nation is the ratio of military and economic spending. Generally if you spend more than 20 percent of your nations income on the military during anytime short of a war for the survival of said nation, you're in trouble.

I have been on your website: thebudgetgraph.com just a moment ago, and I must say that I give you all the respect I have for making this... tomorrow I am going to show it to my teacher tomorrow, and maybe take a couple of hours looking at it and maybe buy the poster for the school...
Cya :respect:

Exceptional document! This should be a DD. As a citizen of the world i shake in front of this display which goes straighter to the thruth than any political discourse.

This is getting a fav. It most have been a mammoth task putting this together.

(If I ever find some wooly elephants about the place, I'll call on your expertise!)