Death & Taxes: 2011 RELEASED!

Posted on 22. Apr, 2010 by Jess in Uncategorized

Another year, another huge and detailed visual record of the federal government.

Death & Taxes has officially been released, and it has its own domain.

http://www.DeathandTaxesPoster.com

I created its own domain to keep it simple and since its my flagship product, it deserved a flagship site. I hope you like it.

There are some cool new features of this years poster too. Last year I had to use dual percentages to represent all the stimulus spending craziness that went on. Well this year that was not needed, but I figured I had already designed it for two percentages, perhaps I can get some extra use in there. So in addition to the 2010-2011 percentage change, I have included the 2001-2011 change.

A full decade ago, when spending was at pre-9/11 levels and its a fascinating data set. I am sure you can guess where most of the growth has occured, but there are still surprises in there. Like the treasury being 27% smaller, go figure.

I have kept a similar layout to last year but there are lots of interesting additions. Pakistan Counterinsurgency Fund ($1.2 billion), Financial Reform ($.877 billion), Clean coal ($.688 billion), and lots more.

This is Obama’s second official budget, but considering his first one was due only weeks into office, we can look at this one as more reflective of his aims and goals. So go see for your self, it only the most open and accessible record of government spending ever to exist (in 6 square feet)

And I am really trying to push this to the masses. It’s really time we get some scale on the budget and where the money is going before we start complaining about whats being wasted.

Please Digg it and retweet it and share it on facebook. You know the MSM isn’t going to cover it.

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7 Comments

Drew, April 23, 2010:

Great job with this, once again. Every politicians, scratch that, every AMERICAN should have this poster!

We all know the government is spending too much money, but what we don’t all know is HOW and WHERE it’s being spent!
lordB8r, April 25, 2010:

It’s an interesting poster, but not really much about death (or taxes) but more about where discretionary spending goes. I guess the title definitely caught my attention, but I don’t think it accurately describes what the poster shows (which is where most of our taxes go). If the poster perhaps showed something about how an individual’s taxes are calculated and spent (once they have died), that might be more accurate (but difficult to produce).
Ed Stern, April 30, 2010:

I have the 2010 on my wall now, and I just had a look at this gem. The Nat’l debt in 2010 was 14.33T, and in 2011 it’s decreased by almost 4T! Still, your annual % change reads a 13% increase. What’s the scoop?
Jeff Walden, May 8, 2010:

What’s the measuring stick for all the numbers? 2010 dollars? 2000 dollars? Or just nominal values?
Joshua Ochs, May 10, 2010:

Most accessible? Hardly! When the only way to get it is either via Flash or by buying the poster? If there was EVER something I’d want as a plain, unadorned image, this is it. And that’s the one format it’s not available in.

Which makes it worthless to huge swaths of people who want to look at it offline on a computer.
Gunz, May 31, 2010:

Your creativeness and hard work is surely commendable! Do check out our blogpost on Death & Taxes:
http://www.e-junkie.info/
Pubpol, June 28, 2010:

I just got your poster in the mail and it looks great! I noticed, however, that the line for the Millenium Challenge Corporation indicates that there has been decrease of %40 percent between 2001-2010. The MCA and subsequent MCC wasn’t created until 2004-2005, I believe; so shouldn’t that figure be blank or am I mis-understanding how to read the data?