Articles from prior issues of The Advocate

March/April 2000

Where The Federal Government Gets A Typical Dollar And Where It Goes
taken from The Associated Press, February 7, 2000

Each dollar of income:

Individual income taxes, 48 cents; Social Security, Medicare and other payroll taxes, 34 cents; corporate income taxes, 10 cents; excise taxes, 4 cents; other, 4 cents.

Of each federal dollar, 91 cents goes to spending and 9 cents to a surplus designated for protecting Social Security and for debt reduction.