On budgets as moral documents.

On budgets as moral documents.

After doing the taxes this year, I was curious what those goodly chunk of our income goes to. Or, rather, where fake potus wants it to.

Here's the Trump budget, more or less:
War (DoD (46%!), Home Sec, State budget directed towards war): 50%
War research (DoE): 20%
Immediate Repercussions of war (VA): 6%

Health & Education (HHS, Ed): 9%
Protecting the needy (HUD, Labor, Justice): 6%
Preventing Future Wars (State): 2%

Some smaller concerns:
NASA: 1.4%
Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, Transportation, Treasury: each 1%
Saving the planet from environmental ruin (EPA): 0.4%
Small Business Administration: 0.06% (why this is in the document is beyond me)

To use the (poor) analogy to a household budget, if I spent half my budget on punching my neighbors, twenty percent on researching how to do it better, and only 2% on how to be friendly with my neighbors then I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have any friends.

Similarly, if I only spent 1% of my income on each on food, business expenses, interior decorating, and understanding and collecting money I'd be starving, impoverished, have barren walls, and not have any money.

This is a pretty barren document. Feel free to look through it and lemme know what you find. It doesn't seem to be written with a consistent style either, sometimes listing reductions as "savings", and sometimes as "reductions". Still, that's the least of the worries.