taxes

Primary sources of revenue for local governments

• individual income tax, FICA, Corporate income tax

• Sales tax, Excise taxes, lottery tax (income tax)

• property tax, small sales tax

• primary and secondary education, city police, city workers, fire protection

Progressive tax

• individual income tax

• Sales tax

highest spending categories for the Federal government

• Social security, national defense, income security

• Welfare, post secondary education, health/ hospitals

• Primary and secondary education, police/fire protection/ city workers

• Social security, Welfare, education

discretionary spending

• Education, infrastructure , military, most of welfare

• SS, medicare, income security programs, interest on the national debt

highest spending categories for the State government

• Social security, national defense, income security

• Welfare, post secondary education, health/ hospitals

• Primary and secondary education, police/fire protection/ city workers

• Sales tax, gambling tax or income tax

Regressive tax

• individual income tax

• Sales tax

Primary sources of revenue for federal governments

• FICA, Corporate income tax, individual income tax

• Excise taxes, lottery tax (income tax), sales tax

• Social security, National defense, interest on the national debt

• Individual income tax, sales tax, property tax

Mandatory spending

• Education, infrastructure , military, most of welfare

• SS, medicare, income security programs, interest on the national debt

Primary sources of revenue for state governments

• individual income tax, FICA, Corporate income tax

• Sales tax, Excise taxes, lottery tax (income tax)

• Welfare, post secondary education

• Individual income tax, sales tax, property tax

highest spending categories for the local government

• Social security, national defense, income security

• Welfare, post secondary education, health/ hospitals

• Primary and secondary education, police/fire protection/ city workers

• Property tax and small sales tax