• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    What I mean is: where it says “federal” – what federal programs specifically are my taxes going towards? This is a type of itemization that does not exist in the US. We just get rather generic buckets like “federal”, “state” etc. Medicare and Social Security get close.

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      6 months ago

      I think the issue is that there would simply be too many different possible buckets, that it wouldn’t exactly be very helpful to you.

      It’s easier to check and see that x% went to your federal taxes, than to see that 0.000001% went to this government program, and 0.0000126% went to this program, and…