Many people are always curious to where our tax dollars go. The chart above shows that most of our tax dollars are equally distributed among Human Resources, the military, and general government spendings. The figures are federal funds, which do not include trust funds — such as Social Security — that are raised and spent separately from income taxes. What you pay (or don’t pay) by April 17, 2007, goes to the federal funds portion of the budget. The government practice of combining trust and federal funds began during the Vietnam War, thus making the human needs portion of the budget seem larger and the military portion smaller. For more can be found in the following site. By looking at these charts I can tell that most of teh money goes towards the war as shown on the following graph.
What happens to property tax? Property tax finances and the services for our local governmentgoes to support public schools, fire and police protection, roads, health programs, parks, city streets, sewer systems, garbage disposal, public libraries, and many other local services. The following chart shows a briefing of the distribution among the following facilities:
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