Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US

Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by nl on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:07AM (#14137164)

This in one some people did fro GovHack in Australia: http://theopenbudget.org

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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by jondubois on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:18AM (#14137579)

I remember I got a letter a while ago from the Australian Tax Office which showed a general break-down of all costs with histograms. The devil is in the details though.

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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by Clownshoesms on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:23AM (#14137402)

Interesting thanks, hadn't seen it.

I delve into the Treasury Portfolio wedge and I get a sinister "Outcome 1" looking as big as our welfare budget (I think from a quick squiz this says 120 billion for welfare but I thought it was closer to 180 billion).

What's all the stuff under the Treasury portfolio?

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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by spangry on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @08:34AM (#14138289)

I can't figure this out myself. I could swear that budget accounting is designed to be as unreadable and incomprehensible as humanly possible. Take a look at http://www.budget.gov.au/2016-17/content/bp4/html/05_art-16.... and scroll right to the bottom. Taken at face value, this seems to suggest total actual appropriations just for the Treasury portfolio were $765bn in 2015-16. Given this equates to about 43% of nominal GDP in 2015, there must be something else going on here that I''m missing.

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