US Budget Visualised
Monday, November 07, 2011
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Below is what the US government spends in one hour. The pile on the left represents what the government spends from its tax revenues and the pile on the right represents what the government borrows in order to spend…every hour! Click here for more.
“No one in the world has as big of a salary as US Government, but it still borrows roughly 40% of the money it spends. “

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