The federal government spends a lot of money: $3.5 trillion this year. Two-thirds goes to pay for benefits programs, including…

$1.47 trillion, the amount collected this fiscal year in taxes, is the highest amount of taxes ever collected in one…

This year, about 46% of all revenues come from the individual income tax, 34% from the Social Security/Medicare payroll tax…

In 1962, before Medicare and Medicaid got going, overall health spending (Medicare, Medicaid, VA, government employees health insurance, etc.) amounted…

There are two reasons that interest rates represents a growing slice of the federal budget: (1) As long as the…