Re:IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 202...
by ceejayoz on Friday May 31, 2024 @04:53PM
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> It's everything else that's contentious.
In part, because of comments using wording like "hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars" as if it were huge, when it describes a pretty miniscule part of the 6,000,000 millions in the budget. (It also misses those same immigrants paying billions in sales and other taxes here, including quite a bit of Medicare/Social Security funding they'll never get back.)
Defense, healthcare, and social security make up the vast majority of Federal expenses. Education is, comparatively, a pittance; nonprofits serving immigrants don't even show up on the chart as a full pixel.
In part, because of comments using wording like "hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars" as if it were huge, when it describes a pretty miniscule part of the 6,000,000 millions in the budget. (It also misses those same immigrants paying billions in sales and other taxes here, including quite a bit of Medicare/Social Security funding they'll never get back.)
As a result, Americans have a massively skewed idea of where it all goes; they think NASA gets 6.4% of the budget when it gets 0.5%, for example. https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-budget-estimates-opinio...
Defense, healthcare, and social security make up the vast majority of Federal expenses. Education is, comparatively, a pittance; nonprofits serving immigrants don't even show up on the chart as a full pixel.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2023_US_Federal_Mand...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2023_US_Federal_Disc...