[mkhalil]

So we spent more on interest for the deficit than we spent on the doubling the combined spending on all of the following:

transportation government operations natural resources community development education & social services agriculture international affairs science & space and energy

...anxiety rises.

[c0balt]

Not really. That is federal spending, right? So your local transport authority or most of the funding of a local schopl, for example, wouldn't be included here?

[mkhalil]

yeah, the context is federally here; so from my federal income taxes which are MUCH higher than my state, sales, and property taxes combined