The Budget Graph releases Death and Taxes 2008

Death and Taxes 2008 has been released! Death and Taxes comes out once a year and graphically shows how the US annual budget is dispersed and spent throughout government, state, and local agencies.

It is one of the most comprehensive and in-depth charts/graphs/whatever-you-want-to-call-it I’ve ever seen and it seems to just get better every year. See it in incredible detail here.

From their website:

“Death and Taxes” is a representational poster of the federal discretionary budget; the amount of money that is spent at the discretion of your elected representatives in Congress. Basically, your federal income taxes. The data is from the President’s budget request for 2008. It will be debated, amended, and approved by Congress by October 1st to begin the fiscal year.

The poster provides a uniquely revealing look at our national priorities, that fluctuate yearly, according to the wishes of the President, the power of Congress, and the will of the people. If you pay taxes, then you have paid for a small part of everything in the poster.

So now you know what you’ve paid for, the next question to ask, is why?

You can order a beautiful poster version of Death and Taxes 2008 that is 24″x36″ for $28.95 (the more posters you buy, the cheaper each poster gets). You can see how some of the posters look like here.