We have covered President Obama’s budget in two previous articles called Visualizing Obama’s Budget Request for 2011 and Budget Forecasts, Compared With Reality. Both of those articles took data from the proposed budget and made them into infographics so that people can easily understand where the money is proposed to be spent. Enter the Washington Post with a new graphic that shows where the receipts flow in from, and the money flows out to be spent. The difference between the two is the yearly deficit.
The article also has historical infographics which show where the revenue (taxes) comes from (80% comes from individual and payroll taxes), spending by discretionary versus non-discretionary items, spending by agency, and whether or not there was a budget or deficit in a given year.
