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  1. bs2 @[email protected] ·

    > Are you concerned a proposed farm bill would spend $195 billion on farm subsidies over the next decade? How about $80.35 billion spent on food stamps last year? Would you be more or less concerned if it were $1.95 billion and $8 billion?
    > Would you have any idea what these numbers mean?
    #CenterForEconomicAndPolicyResearch
    #FederalBudgetCalculator #USABudget #BudgetCalculator

    #budgetcalculator #usabudget #federalbudgetcalculator #centerforeconomicandpolicyresearch
  2. bs2 @[email protected] ·

    > The #OnlineCalculator is simple. For example, the Washington Post recently reported these budget numbers: the cost of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan was lowered to a proposed $1.7 trillion over eight years, while Senate Republicans countered with an $800 billion proposal... #DeanBaker pointed out, Biden’s proposal “. . . is a bit less than 0.8 percent of #GDP...
    cepr.net/press-release/new-too
    #CEPR #BudgetAnalysis #USABudget

    #usabudget #budgetanalysis #cepr #gdp #deanbaker #onlinecalculator
  3. bs2 @[email protected] ·
    CW: usapol #MilitaryIndustrialComplex BiPartisanPentagon

    Since Edward Tufte and Solomon Messing (r/ggplot2 data visualization guru-blogger) convinced me that pie-charts are good for business PR and not analytical reasoning: I'd love to redo this chart as a simple line graph. It would be nice to do it with the original data though: get that Reproducible Research technique going...
    warresisters.org/catalog/feder
    #WRL #WarResistorsLeague #USABudget

    #usabudget #warresistorsleague #wrl