Declining Federal Investment Spending
Over the past 50 years, the share of the federal budget devoted to investments in the future has fallen sharply.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0302_declining_investment_future
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Over the past 50 years, the share of the federal budget devoted to investments in the future has fallen sharply.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0302_declining_investment_future
Mandatory spending accounts for about two-thirds of the budget.
Medicare and Medicaid account for the majority of federal healthcare spending
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0169_federal_health_spending_composition
The U.S. tax system is progressive, with higher-income taxpayers facing higher tax rates.
Between 2006 and 2051, spending on federal health programs is projected to more than double.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0114_federal_health_spending
The growing debt is caused by a structural mismatch between spending and revenues.
Prior to the Great Depression deficits were unusual in the U.S. Budget. Surpluses occurred in about two-thirds of the years between 1800 to 1929.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0023_federal-deficit-surplus
Spending on the major healthcare programs, Social Security, and interest will continue to climb rapidly over the long term.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0281_spending_to_climb_rapidly
Most infrastructure spending in the United States comes from state and local governments
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0274_federal_state_local_infrastructure_spending
State and local governments outspend the federal government in every infrastructure category
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0275_infrastructure_spending_by_category