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have you ever been an addict.  and im not talking
about the hey-i-like-to-do-this-alot type of addict.
im talking about the
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type of addict.  im an addict.  ive never blown anyone
to get it.  i dont think i would.  but i havent been
given the opportunity to either.  the reason i say 'i
dont think i would' is because i like to pretend that
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just to get it.  i know because i have.  so all i
really have is it.  for one hour.  for two hours.  for
fifteen minutes

...Stand.

...Stand.

She beat me to it,
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Upon re-entry,
We broke up in the atmosphere.

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Prince Charming plastic face,
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Cynical whore with her lasso umbilical chord.
She called it off with a tear filled molotov.

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The Perfect Word.

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Death and Taxes: ...by ~mibi

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UPDATE: THE NEW 2007 VERSION IS HERE

the deviantart version

or the Offical Site...

www.TheBudgetGraph.com

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It's interesting to take a looksee where the world's superpower spends its money... Death and Taxes: ... by *mibi ( Suggested by !wicked-eve and Featured by +ekud )

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~bombkamp Nov 20, 2006

great work!!

~CrazyDave55811 Jul 16, 2006

I research the military and its projects and all that stuff. I don't care where my tax dollars are going. I just wish I was rich.

$micahgoulart Jul 9, 2006

wow. just wicked cool. is the 2007 version out yet?

~merwyck Jun 24, 2006

Hey there... I so appreciate this beautifully important work -- thank you!

I've blogged about it with links here so hopefully you'll get some additional traffic/exposure from my relatively humble traffic flow.

Here's the direct link to my blog post, titled DeviantART: Death and Taxes

Really looking forward to the 2007 version -- you go!

!Hinotora May 31, 2006 Artisan Crafter

I thank you for making this handy visualisation. Very nice one! Nice to look at this, and wonder, what do they use money, what do I hope money to be used. And what's important to them, what's important to me?
Makes me wonder.
Thanks!

~gotjosh May 5, 2006

i think your diagrams deserve to be printed and distributed WIDELY!
when the 2007 version is ready i would like to request that truemajority.org include your site in their newsletter... among other links and paperbased forms of redistribution.

what are your policies about printing and distributing (for information/awareness without profit)??

~mibi May 5, 2006

check your notes.

~obvioustroll Apr 19, 2006 Hobbyist Photographer

I'm sorry, but that's an awfully misleading diagram - you excluded 2/3rds of the budget and then claim military spending is bigger than everything else?

I'd be interested in how people would react if they saw that military spending is dwarfed by the various assistance programs (medicaid, etc.) and that paying interest on the national debt dwarfs everything.

~mibi Apr 19, 2006

As the title suggests... its the DISCRETIONARY budget.... social security and medicare are entitlements and not paid for with federal taxes but with their own seperate funds... if you spent more than 5 seconds with this diagram you would know that...

but yeah... your just an obvioustroll.... and ignorant one at that...

~obvioustroll Apr 19, 2006 Hobbyist Photographer

No doubt.

And I'm sure you carefully explain to each and every person who views it that more than 50% of the actual budget isn't shown.

Actually, since you don't show actual spending you don't show how Congress and the President make a mockery of the whole process, either.

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