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Voter's Survival Kit: Taxes, Spending and Debt, Get the Facts


  • Federal budget: revenue sources
  • Federal budget: expenditures
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  • Federal debt
  • Federal debt as a percentage of the economy
  • Federal deficit/surplus
  • Federal deficit/surplus as a percentage of the economy
  • Top federal tax rates
  • Health care spending rising
  • Growing number of Medicare beneficiaries
  • Medicare spending
  • Fewer workers per Social Security beneficiary
  • Growing number of Social Security beneficiaries