It's been quite a ride.

After several months in production, Death and Taxes: 2008 is finally released...

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“Death and Taxes” is a representational poster of the federal discretionary budget; the amount of money that is spent at the discretion of your elected representatives in Congress. Basically, your federal income taxes. The data is from the President's budget request for 2008. It will be debated, amended, and approved by Congress by October 1st to begin the fiscal year.

The poster provides a uniquely revealing look at our national priorities, that fluctuate yearly, according to the wishes of the President, the power of Congress, and the will of the people. If you pay taxes, then you have paid for a small part of everything in the poster.

The poster has been purchased by directors in the pentagon, members of Congress, professors, CEO's and everyday tax payers all over the world!


View the poster in an interactive flash viewer.

Buy the poster

And for a little historical perspective. Here is the two previous versions.

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www.TheBudgetGraph.com
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I STILL NEED HELP... MY TWO PROOFREADERS BACKED OUT!

...well... its almost finished... just a week to go... then off to the printers... but first i need some help!

i need two proofreaders/editors to scrutinize the poster until its bleeding! ... as a reward you will get a copy for free:!: ... including shipping! ... so basically you just have to read over all the text and make sure every thing is spelled right and in its right place... any other suggestions are greatly appreciates... you will also be credited on the website to be [link] ... i must stress that it is manditory that every thing be correct... once its off to the printers then i cant change anything so it has to be prefect right out of the gate.

i can tell you that this graph will seriously blow your mind which how much raw data is in there. twice as much as the last Death and Taxes and it even looks sweeter too. here is a preview.

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So if you want to get a free poster, and be credited on the soon to be imensely popular website, AND become a defacto expert on the federal budget then note me. I will only chose two people. If you are not a proofreading expert then dont bother noting me, these seriously have to flawless, so there is a lot of pressure!... but if your up to it the note me.... also... make sure you can find all the spelling and gramatical mistakes in this journal entry.


Fun Fact: We spend 125 million dollars for the National Endowment for the Arts .... the Air Force spends twice that... on one missle. The EELV. [link]

..so the non military crunching and creation is done... i just have to organize it and add images and text...

here is what i have so far



i will keep this updated so check back... this new version has so muchmore info than the last one... it has some serious depth... the real art will be in fitting it all on 6 square feet of paper... but i will try...

i really think this on will be incredibly useful onces its done... just the sheet amount of information you will have at your fingertips will be astonishing...

also i need some help with part of the website to be.... basically, i would like to put the poster on the website in a flash version, that one could scroll around and zoom in maybe. so bascailly if you know how to make a image scrollable and zoomable in flash or whatever... then let me know ... i can definetly give you a free poster and maybe $25 or something.... this obviously would be a huge file... since the image is so big... but if you can do this let me know..


Fun Fact: The US Institute of Peace receives 27 million dollars next year. The Defense Department receives 560 ... billion.


also much thanks to everyone who helped me with doing the calculations... thanks!

-mibs

Ok so here is my first update. I have crunched all the numbers and have come up with the master totals.

Here they are.

Total discretionary federal spending for 2007 is at 923 Billion

Military spending is at 529 Billion

and non-military is at 364 Billion

that is a 60/40 split folks.

I have the department circles all set now i just have to go by department and grind them out.

Beware.