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Where do your federal tax dollars go? [Graphic Illustration]

Wallstats.com has a nice graphic that illustrates the federal budget and how taxes are spent. It also shows, quite nicely, the gap between what the government makes and what the government spends - which has to be borrowed - otherwise known as the budget deficit (see the bottom right-side of the graphic). [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="What is money? by Kevin Dooley"]
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Unprecedented Transparency from the Treasury

In a day and age when confidence is shaken by the daily doldrums of the markets, and a bullish day is celebrated as some form of stimulus bill, the recent actions by the Treasury and the Obama administration are welcomed. The treasury announced the launch of a website - FinancialStability.gov - where they have started to provided unprecendented transparency into the financial transactions conducted by the government on the road to stabilizing the financial system.

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