Don’t Forget to Take Your Receipt, and Thank You for Shopping with the IRS

Just in time for tax day, the White House provides this interesting little widget to make us feel better about whatever our tax return said.

On my own receipt, I’d like to see more than $20 toward science and space programs, and way less toward agricultural subsidies. Recent visits to the grocery store checkout line do not convince me of the need to prop up agribusiness, which seems to be doing all right for itself.

It’s also funny to see that I’m paying more than three times as much toward Social Security benefits as I am toward Medicare, in light of the fact that Republicans want to ax the latter.

Check it out for yourself and see how much you’re spending where.

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