                   WHERE YOUR INCOME TAX MONEY REALLY GOES

            The United States Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 1991
 
 
 29%  -  CURRENT MILITARY, $330 billion
         Military Personnel $79, Retired Pay $11, Operations and
         Maintenance $86, Family Housing $3, Procurement $79, Research and
         Development $36, Construction $5, Nuclear Weapons (DoE) $10,
         International Security Assistance $9, Coast Guard $3, NASA (estimated
         military portion 50%) $7, Other (CIA, President's Fund for Central
         American, FEMA) $2
 
 23%  -  PAST MILITARY, $259 billion
         Veterans Benefits $30, Interest on National Debt (80% estimated to be
         created by military spending) $229
 
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  9%  -  SAVINGS AND LOAN CRISIS/BANK BAILOUT, $101 billion
         FDIC and Resolution Trust increases
 
  6%  -  PHYSICAL RESOURCES, $70 billion
         (Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, HUD administration/community
         development, Interior Department, Transportation, Environmental
         Protection)
 
 23%  -  HUMAN RESOURCES, $259 billion
         (Education, Health and Human Services, HUD housing subsidies, Labor
         Department)
 
 10%  -  GENERAL GOVERNMENT, $112 billion
         (Government, Justice Department, International Affairs, Peace Corps,
         20% interest on national debt, civilian portion of NASA)
 
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 100%    Total Federal Funds, $1.1 trillion
 
 
 HOW THESE FIGURES WERE DETERMINED
 
 All these dollar figures are for fiscal year 1991, as reported in the Budget 
of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 1992.  The percentages are Federal 
Funds, calculated after removing Trust Funds (such as Social Security), which 
are raised and spent separately from income taxes.  What you pay (or don't pay) 
on April 15 goes only to the Federal Funds portion of the budget.  The 
government practice of combining Trust Funds and Federal Funds (the so-called 
"Unified Budget") began inthe 1960s during the Vietnam War.  The government 
presentation makes the human needs portion of the budget seem larger and the 
military portion smaller.
 
 "Current military" spending adds together money allocated for the Department 
of Defense ($287 billion) plus the "defense" portion from other parts of the 
budget.  Spending on nuclear weapons (without their delivery systems) amounts 
to about 1% of the total budget, about 10% with delivery systems.
 
 "Past military" is represented by veterans' benefits plus 80% of the interest 
on the national debt.  If there had been no military spending, most (if not all) 
of the national debt would have been eliminated.  Analysts differ on how much 
of the debt stems from the military; estimates range from 50% to 100%.  We felt 
that 80% may even be conservative.
 
 This year we include a separate line for savings and loan/bank bailouts.  Line 
items for the Resolution Trust Corporation and FDIC took huge leaps in the 1991 
regulation and the greed of bank owners.
 
 This chart is calculated from fiscal year 1991 "budget outlays" reported in 
the President's proposed 1992 budget publication.  We use 1991 outlays (bills 
actually being paid) to show where your taxes due on April 15, 1991, are going.  
The President's proposed 1992 budget is debated by Congress through the spring 
and summer of 1991 for approval by the beginning of the government's fiscal year 
in October 1991.  Contact your legislators now with your concerns!
 
 WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST: The President did not include the war in the current 
1991 or proposed 1992 budget figures.
 
 Source:  War Resisters League
          339 Lafayette Street
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