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Government Spending Breakdown
Total Government Spending | |||
| Government Pensions | $1.3 trillion |  | |
| Government Health Care | + $1.5 trillion | | |
| Government Education | + $1.1 trillion | | |
| National Defense | + $0.8 trillion | | |
| Government Welfare | + $0.6 trillion | | |
| All Other Spending | + $2.1 trillion | | |
| Total Government Spending | $7.5 trillion | | |
| Federal Deficit | + $0.6 trillion | | |
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There’s much, much more:
What is the spending data; where is it from?
- Federal spending data begins in 1792.
- State and local spending data begins in 1902.
- Spending data is from official government sources.
Federal data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau.
- Gross Domestic Product data comes from measuringworth.com.
- Spending data sources here.
Federal data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau.
Sources
U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1913-2011
US Federal Income tax rate Schedules
New FDSYS federal budget page
from US Government Printing Office
Combined Statement of Receipts, Outlays, and Balances of the United States Government FY 2010
Annual US Treasury Report on Spending and Revenue
US Government - Historical Debt Outstanding
US Treasury's measure of US National Debt
Measuring Worth - GDP Series for US and UK
includes GDP and chained GDP for US; GDP and chained GDP for UK
Gross Domestic Product by State
from Bureau of Economic Analysis
US Population Estimates from 1900
Census Bureau's annual population estimate from 1900 to 1999
2005 Census of Governments - Finance Technical Documentation
Contains Census Bureau spending and revenue codes
JpGraph Chart Library
Open source graph creating Library for PHP.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
historical editions of Census Bureau's publication. From 1878.
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Top links
Data Sources for 2016:
GDP: US Budget FY12 Table 10.1
Federal:
Budget of the US Government
State: State and Local Gov. Finances
> data sources for other years
> data update schedule.
US GDP for 2011 Updated
Usgovernmentspending.com uses measuringworth.com as its GDP source because the data series for nominal and real GDP go back to 1790.
Budget News
FY13 Budget Plan Has Familiar Ring
$3 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years including $1.5 trillion in tax increases.
FY13 budget due Feb 13
White House to miss budget deadline for third year.
Lew to finish work on 2013 budget before departing OMB
Early February release?
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Blog
Budget Data Back to 1986 Now Available
You can now examine federal government budget data on usgovernmentspending.com going back to 1986.
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Updated with House FY13 Budget Resolution
On March 30, 2012, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the House Budget Resol...
Federal Taxes by State Updated
On March 22, 2012, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from "Table 5. Gross Collec...
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Education
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State
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