With a name like Austin you knew I'd move to Texas sooner or later.
As US election season approaches, I thought I'd refresh myself on the size and distribution of government expenditures. This graphic is a "square pie chart" representing the total $6.5T in US government spending, approximately 44% of total US GDP for context. This spend includes all expenditures at Federal, State and Local levels with classifications as per government accounting guidelines. Where appropriate, I grouped smaller slices together into logically sensible ones, such as Federal Highway spending which gets split into multiple funds and between operations and capital expenditures.
Theme created for Posterous by Obox
