Apple responds to NYT: "We're among top payers of U.S. income tax"

Re:Apple responds to NYT: "We're among top payers of U.S. in... by cagenut on Sunday April 29, 2012 @09:47PM (#3907688)

This infographic is great at putting the fed budget in perspective: http://deathandtaxesposter.com/ tl;dr - mostly "defense"

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Re:Apple responds to NYT: "We're among top payers of U.S. in... by dantheman on Monday April 30, 2012 @12:28AM (#3908033)

Nope, that infographic is used to confuse people because it doesn't make clear that it's primarily showing the federal discretionary budget which is only ~40% of the entire budget: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY...

As the diagram has evolved they added a small total budget thing to bottom, but most people don't realize what it means.

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