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US Federal Budget Factsheet 2008  **National Debt $10.6 trillion**. ** Deficit $240 billion** **Total receipts(income) $2.66 trillion**. $1.25 trillion - [|Individual income tax] $927.2 billion - [|Social Security] $314.9 billion - [|Corporate income tax] $68.1 billion - [|Excise taxes] $29.2 billion - [|Customs duties] $25.7 billion - Estate and [|gift taxes] $50.7 billion - Other **Spending: $2.9 trillion**. $608 billion (+4.5%) - [|Social Security] $386 billion (+5.2%) - [|Medicare] $209 billion (+5.6%) - [|Medicaid] $324 billion (+1.8%) - Unemployment/Welfare $261 billion (+9.2%) - Interest on National Debt $481.4 billion (+12.1%) - [|United States Department of Defense] $145.2 billion (+45.8%) - [|Global War on Terror]  Click and Print this too:

  For 2009, the base budget rose to US$515.4 billion, with a total of US$651.2 billion when emergency discretionary spending and supplemental spending are included. This does not include many military-related items that are outside of the Defense Department budget, such as nuclear weapons research, maintenance and production (~$9.3 billion, which is in the [|Department of Energy] budget), [|Veterans Affairs] (~$33.2 billion) or the wars in [|Iraq] and [|Afghanistan] (which are largely funded through extra-budgetary supplements, ~$170 billion in 2007) - the United States government is currently spending at the rate of approximately $1 trillion per year for all defense-related purposes.
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