This Simple Chart Shows Where The Fed’l Gov’t Spent Your Money Last Year. All $3.45 Trillion Of It.

That’s right. The federal government spent $3.45 trillion dollars in fiscal year 2013. That’s a 3…followed by 12 digits: $3,454,253,000,000.

This nearly-unfathomable amount can be broken down into three basic categories:

1. Non-Means-Tested Government Programs
2. Means-Tested Government Programs
3. “Other”

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This chart details the various expenditures in these two categories:

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