How many federal taxpayers live in an average American neighborhood?
The average American taxpayer pays about $13,000 per year in federal income taxes. That means you and your neighborhood friends send a total of about $1,300,000 to Washington DC each and every year.
What does the federal government do with your money?
Here, per the US Senate, is a partial list of how the federal government spent the money you and your neighbors sent it in 2024:
The federal government spent $10 billion on maintaining, leasing, and furnishing almost entirely empty buildings
The Department of the Interior (DOI) spent $12 Million on a Las Vegas Pickleball Complex
The Department of State (DOS) wasted $330,000 to fund censorship of non-liberal and conservative media
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a $2 million grant to study kids looking at Facebook ads about food
The Department of State (DOS) spent $108,272 on a non-functioning hotel
Congress spent $15 million to turn the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) into an unconstitutional force to prepare, file, and audit your hard-earned money
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spent $419,470 to determine if lonely rats seek cocaine more than happy rats
The Department of Energy (DOE) spent $15.5 billion to push Americans toward electric vehicles they don't want
The Department of State (DOS) squandered $4,840,082 on influencers
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) spent $365,000 to promote circuses in city parks
The Department of State (DOS) spent $3 Million for ‘Girl-Centered Climate Action’ in Brazil
The Department of State (DOS) paid the Royal Film Commission $873,584 for movies in Jordan
The Department of State (DOS) spent $345,434 on football engagement to counter terrorism
The United States Department of the Treasury (USDT) granted a failed trucking company a $700 million pandemic-era loan
The National Science Foundation (NSF) spent $288,563 to ensure bird watching groups have safe spaces aka “Affinity Groups”
Americans are paying $892 billion in fiscal year 2024 on the interest on Uncle Sam’s Credit Card
The Department of State (DOS) spent $500,000 to expand the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia’s #USInvestsInEthiopians social media campaign to a larger national public relations campaign
The federal government spent $7,026,689 on various magical projects
The Department of State (DOS) spent $2.1 million for Paraguayan Border Security
Since 2015 the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded $385,000 for art displays on the High Line
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is spending $20 million on the Fertilize Right Initiative to advance fertilizer use in Pakistan, Vietnam, Colombia, and Brazil
The Department of State (DOS) is spending $123,066 to teach Kyrgyzstan youth how to go viral
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $1,513,299 on a study of waste and cruelty
The Department of Defense (DOD) spent $10,851,439 on Orwellian cat experiments
The Department of the Interior (DOI) spent $720,479 on wetland conservation projects for ducks in Mexico
The Agency for International Development (USAID) is spending $20 million on “Ahlan Simsim” a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
The Department of State (DOS) sent $253,653 to Bosnia to fight “misinformation”
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded the Bearded Ladies Cabaret a $10,000 grant to support a cabaret show on ice skates focused on climate change
The Department of State (DOS) allocated $32,596.12 for breakdancing
Cut out just a couple of these spending boondoggles and you personally wouldn't need to pay a dime in federal taxes.
Eliminate them all and your neighborhood -- and probably all the neighborhoods in your town or state -- wouldn't need to pay income taxes.
How much better off would you have been in 2024 if the federal government had allowed you to keep your $13,000 to spend on yourself and your family? How much better off would your neighbors and your neighborhood and your town be if they were allowed to keep their hard-earned money rather than send it to Washington DC?
Now hold that thought while you consider the billions and billions of federal tax dollars being poured down the drain by USAID each year.
Next, consider the fact that the US federal government collects about $5-trillion in taxes each and every year and spends it all. This is money taken directly out of the pockets of American taxpayers.
And for what?
The only thing worse than paying taxes is paying taxes at gunpoint to fund some politician's wet dream.
