DRS112

Well..if you trust wiki...then the total was 2.8 and SS is included...

Total receipts
Receipts for fiscal year 2007 were $2,407 billion. FY2007 on-budget receipts were $1,798 billion. FY2007 off-budget receipts were $608 billion. Off-budget receipts include Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes, as well as the net profit or loss of the U.S. Postal Service.

$1,163 billion - Individual income tax
$869.6 billion - Social Security and other payroll taxes
$370.2 billion - Corporate income tax
$65.1 billion - Excise taxes
$26.0 billion - Customs duties
$26.0 billion - Estate and gift taxes
$47.2 billion - Other
Source: preliminary FY2007 year-end estimate from the U.S. Treasury Dept.

The IRS estimated that there were about $345 billion in uncollected taxes, which is sometimes referred to as the "tax ga



Total spending

A pie chart representing the US budget for 2007The President's actual budget for 2007 totals $2.8 trillion. Percentages in parentheses indicate percentage change compared to 2006. This budget request is broken down by the following expenditures:

$586.1 billion (+7.0%) - Social Security
$548.8 billion (+9.0%) - Defense[2]
$394.5 billion (+12.4%) - Medicare
$294.0 billion (+2.0%) - Unemployment and welfare
$276.4 billion (+2.9%) - Medicaid and other health related
$243.7 billion (+13.4%) - Interest on debt
$89.9 billion (+1.3%) - Education and training
$76.9 billion (+8.1%) - Transportation
$72.6 billion (+5.8%) - Veterans' benefits
$43.5 billion (+9.2%) - Administration of justice
$33.1 billion (+5.7%) - Natural resources and environment
$32.5 billion (+15.4%) - Foreign affairs
$27.0 billion (+3.7%) - Agriculture
$26.8 billion (+28.7%) - Community and regional development
$25.0 billion (+4.0%) - Science and technology
$23.5 billion (+0.0%) - Energy
$20.1 billion (+11.4%) - General government


United States federal budget, 2007 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Titanium Cat

Yes I was wrong, they include SS in the total budget.

Haven't figured out what part they are including with the interest on the debt calculation. I think that only includes money borrowed from the general fund and not on SS and other trust funds.

ritika

Hi friends, do you know any scholarship for international students in US? I am now looking for a scholarship to study 11th grade in USA because I cannot afford whole year tuition fee. My English is good and also my grade points are high. Can you help me to find any scholarship? Thanks a lot for helping and all help will be greatly appreciated

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cheapseats

Have you not heard? Simply show up. Eleventh grade? Simply enroll, then declare that you have special needs. Report that you are experiencing discrimination by nationality, gender AND age. Start a Movement...UHC, Universal Highschool Contributions...notify the ACLU, and demand a Congressional investigation.

Among the many and assorted special interests that we entertain, we have not yet heard the International High Schooler Blues.

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cheapseats

You know the goodwill tax rebate checks that due to arrive pre-election? THOSE are tax dollars, come full circle. Consider what was spent to collect them, then what was spent to give them back. That's bad enough.

But then there are the letters that have been sent to us to assure us that our checks are not yet but WILL be in the mail. Pure you-can't-put-a-price-tag-on-feeling-good bullshit.

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DRS112

Why are you asking us to pay for your education here? Why won't your own government pay for it?

cheapseats

Excerpted from "You're On"/ His Royal Highness

Take, for example, these photos from Savannah:





That’s exactly what the tour guide said of these statues. Among their beautiful and more beautiful edifices, these government buildings are not their favorites, but they are considered quintessential of a type, which means they are restored, not replaced. They call these the bathroom tile buildings.

Those sculptures, he said, were a gift from the federal government, purchased with taxpayer dollars. “That’s right,” he said. “You paid for it...feel free to take a piece of it when you leave.”

Are you familiar with Savannah? It is a place to which I will consider moving, if the results of the November election suggest that my country is on a path of recovery. If not, as far as I am concerned, there is nowhere in this country worth moving to unless, of course, I marry an uber rich man. That, as well you know, is a whole different ball game. So to speak.

So beautiful and strategic was Savannah that she was presented by General Sherman to Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas gift...and the federal government turns around years later and gives Savannah THESE? And I paid for it? Perhaps that is why I and so many others question my sanity on such a regular basis. We question yours, too, by the by.

It is infuriating how long it takes me to get to a point, don’t you agree? No matter, I talk and type and talk and type, and the point falls on deaf ears anyway.

Whoever first said Talk Is Cheap never met you.

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Malkavian

Well, since you are an international, i don't think you'll qualify for federal aid... I'd look for private scholarships, but since you are in high school, i don't really know any.

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Woof!

PursuitOfHappinessParty

Hey Cheap;
Those are the ugliest.

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BillCosby

[April 11th, 2007] Defunding the war in Iraq begins at home if you're John Schwiebert, a 68-year-old pastor at Metanoia Peace Community United Methodist Church in Northeast Portland.

This week, while the rest of us scrape together money to feed insatiable Uncle Sam, Schwiebert and his 62-year-old wife, Pat, one "seriously pissed-off granny" (see "Surge Protection Brigade," WW, Feb. 21, 2007), won't be filing federal taxes at all.

Instead, in an effort to prevent their money from paying for bloodshed overseas, they're redirecting the $3,500 they figure they owe the Internal Revenue Service to a government without a standing army—in this case, Multnomah County. (Although they say they oppose filing federal taxes, the Schwieberts don't object to paying state and local ones.)

"We don't want to keep it for ourselves; we feel like it's public money," Schwiebert says in the sunroom of the home he shares with six adults, a 99-year-old mansion in Northeast known as the 18th Avenue Peace House.

If the Schwieberts' actions seem extreme, consider this: They're not alone.

The IRS says it doesn't track how many conscientious objectors don't pay their federal taxes every year. But Ruth Benn, an organizer for the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee from Park Slope, Brooklyn, estimates between 8,000 and 10,000 Americans protest U.S. military policy by withholding all or part of their taxes. And John Grueschow of Southeast Portland says that number includes at least 30 people from the Oregon Community for War Tax Resistance.

Benn says she noticed an uptick in the total number of war tax resisters just before the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003. And now, after leveling off, the numbers are beginning to rise again in the fifth year of the war.

Although the IRS doesn't count tax-withholding war protesters, it does count their taxes. And it tends to miss the money. After all, the U.S. government faces $2.9 trillion in bills next year, and the Department of Defense's budget alone constitutes nearly one-fifth of that—about $600 billion in 2008. (That doesn't include the cost of paying for veterans' benefits and other indirect expenses of war. Other groups like the War Resisters League estimate that slightly more than half of the federal budget covers military-related expenses.)

"The IRS's longstanding position is that individuals may not withhold their income, excise or other taxes in protest against U.S. government policies," writes IRS spokesman Bill Steiner in an email. "Individuals who protest against the war in this fashion can expect to receive bills for what they owe, as well as an assessment of interest and penalties where appropriate."

The Schwieberts know this firsthand, since they've been withholding at least part of their taxes to protest defense policy for 30 years. In 1985, tax collectors tried to seize the couple's former five-bedroom Portland home, which was saved from auction by a friend who clandestinely paid the IRS lien. And beginning in January, the feds started garnishing $1,400 a month from John Schwiebert's $3,000 monthly pension in an attempt to collect the $7,500 the couple owes from 2002 and 2003.

"We're paying a heavy price right now for doing this," Schwiebert says. Even though the feds are still collecting his back taxes, he says his stand raises public awareness of how they spend citizens' tax money.

John Grueschow, a longtime coordinator for the Northwest Military and Draft Counseling Project, which helps soldiers who want to leave the service, also stopped filing federal taxes as a conscientious objector in 1997. "It was ridiculous to do all that peace and justice work and then pay for war through taxes," he says.

For nine years, he gave his money to an antiwar escrow fund that supports antiwar groups like PDX Recruiter Watch, a nonprofit organization devoted to counter-recruiting in area high schools.

Ann Huntwork, 75, and her husband, Bruce, who also live in the 18th Avenue Peace House, have been war tax resisters the Vietnam era in 1973. Together they owe thousands of dollars in back taxes, and the U.S. government is now regularly deducting $205 a month from their $1,600-a-month Social Security benefits.

But Huntwork isn't crying. "We are just delighted that we will be dead before they collect it all," she says.

—News intern Jocelyn Brady contributed to this report.

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Preventive war is not war!!!!Counter-terror is not terror