Comments on: What do our federal taxes get spent on? http://www.billdawers.com/2013/01/07/what-do-our-federal-taxes-get-spent-on/ Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:58:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Savannah Unplugged | A few thoughts on the debt ceiling — and why it will have to be raised http://www.billdawers.com/2013/01/07/what-do-our-federal-taxes-get-spent-on/#comment-24794 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:58:26 +0000 http://www.billdawers.com/?p=4636#comment-24794 […] To put it simply, we don’t have enough money coming in right now to pay for all the spending that Congress has authorized. The bulk of that spending falls in a few key areas: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and defense. I used the following image in another recent post, What do our federal taxes get spent on?: […]

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