I _really_ enjoyed this and love the concept! Scrolling on desktop was a little odd, but worked really well otherwise.

Content wise it's pretty eye opening just how much of our tax dollars go to things like social security, medicare and interest. Seeing it laid out in the exact dollar amount affecting me is pretty powerful stuff. I wonder how much voting habits would change if this was a common way to communicate the cost of federal programs. I had moments where I was thinking "why are we not spending more on education!" as a result as well.

Awesome work!

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coredog64 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'm at work, so just a few seconds to chime in: Educational spending is primarily sourced from the states. If you were to sum state spending on education, you would come up with another eye-watering pile of money. It's just that this money is usually sourced from property taxes and sales taxes and so doesn't show up on a "Here's how your income taxes were spent" analysis.

	▲	ghaff 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		In fact, a lot of educational spending is local. I think something like 65% (maybe more) of my town's property taxes go to K-12 education with a decent chunk of the rest going to emergency services. There are various grants at the state and federal levels but it's mostly local.

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Cider9986 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Another cool site somewhat similar to this is Wealth, shown to scale[1]

[1] https://wealth.ronnycoste.com/