US Federal Budget for 2007 Details

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Since political debates on this site are so common and debate over the budget is very common, here's a handy link to detailed information on the 2007 Federal Budget:

http://www.answers.com/topic/united-states-federal-budget-2007

 

Highlights:

 

Below is federal spending and federal tax receipts by year:

 

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

Lies, lies, lies!  It's all a pack of lies.

The feds need to take the money from those greedy rich people and redistribute it to cover all of these social causes.

Don't you remember, conservatives caring for other people is a myth.  Or was it some other myth included in the supposedly exploded myths of late?

 

{ end sarcasm }

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
58% is not enough.  Unbelievable.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I see a whole lot of social spending there. And they say we need higher taxes.....
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I guess graphs are too much for some people to handle.  How can anyone advocate more of a nanny state after seeing this?

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I guess graphs are too much for some people to handle. How can anyone advocate more of a nanny state after seeing this?


So far no one here has, where are all the "Lies, lies, lies! It's all a pack of lies" replies on this article? The real ones I mean.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

Woah!  I didn't realize so much of our budget went to Social Security.

There are people in my family who assure me we spend all our money on the war, and the "damn military."  Then we go in debt to give money to other countries.

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Woah!  I didn't realize so much of our budget went to Social Security.
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Or social programs. 
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
If you go to the link that Draginol posted you can find out that the full military spending is actually a lot higher than the chart would suggest.

I quote 'The total requested military budget for 2007 was $699 billion', the difference being the baseline spending (wages etc) and the actually cost of the baseling plus all the cost involded in using the military.

The numbers appear to vary a little even within the article but even the lower number the they say later is larger than the 466B 'If approved by Congress, total FY 2007 spending for DoD/WoT would be $673 billion, or 64% of the net discretionary budget.'.

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
or 64% of the net discretionary budget.'
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That in itself is deceptive since "discretionary" is not what you or I would consider to be discetionary, but what the government has deemed to be "needed" regardless of the need involved. In truth, all of it has shown to be discretionary in the past when the desire of politicians has deemed it so.

If you look at it from a strict constitutional standpoint, the only "non-discretionary" portion is defense, since that is ennumerated in the constitution while the rest is at the discretion of the government and subsequent laws.