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A married person with one child making $50,000 a year will pay exactly $3,820 in federal taxes. Of those, $2100 is allocated to Social Security, and $725 is distributed Medicare. This leaves a whopping $995 to be used to pay for programs administrated by the Federal
government. That money is broken down below in its entirety:

• National Defense $247.75 / 24.9%

• Health care — $235.81 / 23.7%

• Job and Family Security — $190.05 / 19.1%

• Net Interest — $73.63 / 8.1%

• Veterans Benefits — $44.77 / 4.5%

• Education and Job Training — $35.82 / 3.6%

• Natural Resources, Energy, and Environment — $19.90 / 2.0%

• Immigration, Law Enforcement, and Administration of Justice — $19.90 / 2.0%

• International Affairs — $15.92 / 1.6%

• Science, Space, and Technology Programs — $9.95 / 1.0%

• Agriculture — $6.96 / 0.7%

• Community, Area, and Regional Development — $4.98 / 0.5%

• Response to Natural Disasters — $3.98 / 0.4%

• Additional Government Programs — $78.61 / 7.9%

The category needed for examination is “Job and Family
Security”, which comprises 19.1% of all of the $995 paid in. In the
future I will examine other categories in more detail. The breakdown of
the $190.05 is listed below:

• Unemployment insurance — $22.88 / 2.3%

• Food and nutrition assistance — $36.82 / 3.7%

• Housing assistance — $19.90 / 2.0%

• Earned income, Making Work Pay, and child tax credits — $32.84 / 3.3%

• Supplemental Security Income — $18.91 / 1.9%

• Federal military and civilian employee retirement and disability — $43.78 / 4.4%

• Child care, foster care, and adoption support — $5.97 / 0.6%

• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families — $6.96 / 0.7%

• Railroad retirement and additional income security — $4.98 / 0.5%