Perhaps you’ve noticed that today is tax day in the US, and perhaps you’ve wondered where your taxes are going. As a breath of fresh air, the U.S. Government has posted a web site to calculate your payments and let you instantly see how your individual tax payment is being spent.

The online tax receipt page is really easy to use. You just enter in your 2010 payments for social security tax, medicare tax, and income tax to find out where your dollars are being spent. The social security and medicare taxes are pretty obvious, since their destinations are in their names, but the breakdown of your income tax will provide you with a window into how the government spends your hard-earned money.

See for yourself  WhiteHouse.gov
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