The House Budget Plan – Analyzed
The House Budget Committee revealed its budget plan late last week and it’s up for a vote later this week. We’ve run the numbers, and will break them down for you here.
Under the House plan, total spending in Fiscal Year 2010 (outlays) will be just short of $3 trillion dollars. (Specifically $2,996,234,000,000.00). That’s about $30,600 per U.S. family, or just shy of $9,800 per person.
Where does the money go? Let’s break it down. The budget lists spending by categories so you can get an idea of what your tax dollars buy:
National Defense
- Total: $606,043,000,000.00, which is
- $5,867.35 per family, or
- $1,874.55 per person
International Affairs
- $43,461,000,000.00, which is
- $420.76 per family, or
- $134.43 per person
General Science, Space, and Technology
- $32,467,000,000.00, which is
- $314.33 per family, or
- $100.42 per person
Energy
- $7,267,000,000.00, which is
- $70.35 per family, or
- $22.48 per person
Natural Resources and Environment
- $40,450,000,000.00, which is
- $391.61 per family, or
- $125.12 per person
Agriculture
- $23,951,000,000.00, which is
- $231.88 per family, or
- $74.08 per person
Commerce and Housing Credit
- $85,638,000,000.00, which is
- $829.10 per family, or
- $264.89 per person
Transportation
- $95,695,000,000.00, which is
- $926.46 per family, or
- $295.99 per person
Community and Regional Development
- $29,303,000,000.00, which is
- $283.69 per family, or
- $90.64 per person
Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services
- $140,300,000,000.00, which is
- $1,358.30 per family, or
- $433.96 per person
Health
- $388,746,000,000.00, which is
- $3,763.61 per family, or
- $1,202.43 per person
Medicare
- $449,784,000,000.00, which is
- $4,354.54 per family, or
- $1,391.23 per person
Income Security
- $539,918,000,000.00, which is
- $5,227.17 per family, or
- $1,670.02 per person
Social Security
- $20,378,000,000.00, which is
- $197.29 per family, or
- $63.03 per person
Veterans Benefits and Services
- $105,468,000,000.00, which is
- $1,021.08 per family, or
- $326.22 per person
Administration of Justice
- $51,630,000,000.00, which is
- $499.85 per family, or
- $159.70 per person
General Government
- $22,757,000,000.00, which is
- $220.32 per family, or
- $70.39 per person
Net Interest
- $284,085,000,000.00, which is
- $2,750.34 per family, or
- $878.70 per person
Allowances
- $4,893,000,000.00, which is
- $47.37 per family, or
- $15.13 per person
Undistributed Offsetting Receipts
- -$68,774,000,000.00, which is
- $-665.83 per family, or
- $-212.73 per person
Overseas Deployments and Other Activities
- $92,774,000,000.00, which is
- $898.18 per family, or
- $286.96 per person
Want to understand what these categories mean? Here’s a report that explains them. The total spending numbers are raw amounts, but the per family and per person figures are net present value – the amount you’d have to put in the bank today to fund the spending next fiscal year.
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Kathy Bennett
Unless I missed something, the House numbers have nothing for Administration of Justice, which kinda makes sense for THEM! Since when has the House ever been interested in JUSTICE!, or honesty, or paying taxes or realizing that they work for US, or…
Kathy Bennett
ah forget it, i see it now
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Rob D
It’s time to stop denying the Vets that have made this country free. The VA disability is based on discretionary funding for you to disagree with policy instead denies what life they may have left. How many of you that disagree with this have the magnetic ribbons on you SUV?
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