Some facts on tax and waste

If the government spent $100 a year:

• $20 would go on health;
• $18 would go on education;
• $13 would go on superannuation;
• $11 would go on other benefits, including family support, the accomodation supplement, and ACC;
• $7 would go on other expenses;
• $5 would go on police and the courts;
• $5 would go on repaying Muldoon's debts;
• $4 would go on core government services;
• $4 would go on roads;
• $3 would go on defence;
• $3 would go on the DPB;
• $2.25 would go on the invalids benefit;
• $2 would go on student loans;
• $2 would go on the unemployment benefit;
• 75 cents would go on the sickness benefit;

0.0054 cents would go on hip-hop tours.

Kindof puts things in perspective, doesn't it?

(Data from this handy chart, courtesy of Span, with additional data from the Budget 2005 summary tables and estimates for Vote: Social Development.)