Dispatch Box: Where Your Tax Dollar Goes: Total Federal Spending for 2014–15
The three main elements of federal spending are transfer payments, other program expenses, and interest on the national debt. We can see what this looks like out of each dollar spent:
Transfer payments break down as follows:
Where does the money come from? A dollar of federal revenue comes from a variety of sources:
Source: All data from Department of Finance, Fiscal Reference Tables, September 2015, Table 5
