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Schoen, John W. "Here's where your federal income tax dollars go." @http://economywatch.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/04/11018742-heres-where-your-federal-income-tax-dollars-go?lite. Web. 6 Sept. 2012. __ Facts __ > >
 * 1) Like many tax filers you're probably asking yourself where all that money goes when the state and federal governments get their hands on it.
 * 2) If you have trouble balancing your checkbook, imagine trying to keep track of where $3.6 trillion goes every year. That’s roughly what Uncle Sam spent last year.
 * 3) A $3.6 trillion budget has a lot of large numbers.
 * 4) To make it a little easier to imagine which of those tax dollars is yours, here’s roughly how the federal budget compares to your budget and mine. Picture Uncle Sam, sitting at the kitchen table, trying to make ends meet.
 * 5) Last year, the three biggest federal budget items were Social Security, health care and defense spending. So if Uncle Sam was a median wage earner, he'd have spent more than $600 of his $1,000 weekly paycheck on just those three programs.
 * 6) On his annual salary of $52,000, the cost of federal health care works out to a little more than $11,000 a year.
 * 7) The biggest chunk of that (about $125 of his weekly paycheck) went to pay for Medicare, which provides health coverage for people over 65. The rest ($95) went for Medicaid, which covers low-income families and individual, and state-administered health coverage for children.
 * 8) While most households are having a hard time setting aside a few bucks a month for their IRAs, your government is busy stashing away retirement cash for a rainy day; about $200 of the weekly paycheck went to the Social Security fund. (Just for fun, compare that to how much of your weekly paycheck goes to retirement savings.)
 * 9) Next up is military spending. This includes a variety of defense costs, including salaries for the troops, operating and maintenance costs, “procurement” (stuff you bought), and research, development, test and evaluation of all those things you bought. Throw in another few bucks for things like “atomic energy defense activities” and housing the troops, and Uncle Sam paid about $200 a week to keep the nation safe. (That’s about $10,400 for the year.)
 * 10) Unfortunately, Uncle Sam — like many Americans — has been living beyond his means and spending more than he takes in.
 * 11) To make up the difference, the Treasury steps up by selling more debt — more or less the way American households use credit cards.
 * 12) Interest on the Treasury’s credit card eats up about 6 percent, or the equivalent of about $64, of Uncle Sam's weekly spending.
 * 13) Public assistance for the poor consumed just $12 billion of all state spending, or an average of just one penny of every dollar of your state taxes.
 * 14) Those include public workers pension and benefits programs, aid to local governments and unrestricted spending like property tax relief.
 * 15) In Wyoming, just 7 percent of state spending goes to Medicaid, while that program consumes 30 percent of spending in Missouri and Florida.