Breakdown of federal spending.

• Position: Tax Dollars

Americans typically have strong feelings about paying their taxes, and yet many of us do not know what our taxes actually pay for. National Priorities Project, Northhampton, Mass., has released its annual to-the-penny breakdown of how the Federal government spends each dollar of income taxes.

Out of every Federal income tax dollar paid in 2016, 29.1[cent] went to health care; 23.4[cent] to the Pentagon and military; 13.20 to interest on Federal debt; 7.5[cent] to unemployment and labor, six cents to veterans' benefits, and just pennies to food and agriculture, government, education...