{"id":24314,"date":"2017-04-17T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24314"},"modified":"2017-04-17T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:39:57","slug":"image-of-the-day-how-your-federal-tax-dollars-are-now-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24314\/image-of-the-day-how-your-federal-tax-dollars-are-now-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  How Your Federal Tax Dollars Are Now Spent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s image of the day, courtesy of <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, how $100 of your federal taxes are now allocated by the government:<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Federal Spending Allocation\" src=\"https:\/\/si.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/BF-AP866_TAXREP_9U_20170414113908.jpg\" alt=\"Federal Spending Allocation\" width=\"490\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>For perspective (see image below), that means that military spending has declined an alarming 22.3% since just 2011. \u00a0In contrast, since 2011 Social Security spending is up 17%, Medicare is up 15.1%, Medicaid is up 25.4%, civilian federal retirement is up 11.3%, education is up 5.3% and interest payments are up 1.8%. \u00a0Something to consider as important budget and spending battles heat up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2011 Comparison\" src=\"http:\/\/ereader.wsj.net\/newsmemvol2\/newyork\/wallstreetjournal\/20170415\/wsj_20170415_b008_p2jw105000_4_b00800_1________ns2017_w-or9_w-socr.pdf.0\/page\/pag_2_0.gif\" alt=\"2011 Comparison\" width=\"417\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s image of the day, courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, how $100 of your federal taxes are now allocated by the government: . . For perspective (see image below), that means that military spending has declined an alarming 22.3% since just 2011. \u00a0In contrast, since 2011 Social Security spending is up 17%, Medicare is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2825,342,61,71],"class_list":["post-24314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-federal-government","tag-military","tag-spending","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24318,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314\/revisions\/24318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}