Comment on Chart
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Is the chart accurate? Do we have a source?
I ask because I don’t see where social security would fit at all, and I suspect that Medicare/Medicaid would be a larger portion than the 5% listed for health.
Yes and no, a reverse image search pulled up this answer on stack exchange skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/36521
It’s old, and only represents discretionary spending vs mandatory (which is where food stamps/SS/Medi* would be) but according to them for food stamps specifically it would still only be about 2% of the federal budget
Can you update the text part of the post with these details?
I believe food stamps are a subset of the US Department of Agriculture spending.
Social security and Medicare are considered mandatory spending. The chart above is presumably showing discretionary spending, which is a sunset of the overall budget. I can’t speak to it’s accuracy beyond that.
According to the comments of an earlier post of the same picture it is not: lemmy.world/post/25845711
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 day ago
No. It’s outdated, misleading and inaccurate.
Most people don’t realize it but in FY2024 the interest payments on the National Deficit exceeded the entire military budget.
visualcapitalist.com/breaking-down-the-u-s-govern…
If you don’t like that source then here’s the treasury department itself: fiscaldata.treasury.gov/…/federal-spending/
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, it’s blatantly dishonest for OP’s chart to be labeled “Federal Spending” when it doesn’t include the majority of federal spending categories. Particularly when the goal is for the reader to point at the largest spending category, despite the chart not including the largest spending categories.