{"id":715931,"date":"2010-04-13T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T02:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=16335"},"modified":"2010-04-13T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T02:22:53","slug":"how-much-are-you-paying-for-earmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/715931","title":{"rendered":"How Much Are You Paying for Earmarks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you combine the public debt &#8212; the amount we owe China and other nations &#8212; with our intragovernmental debt &#8212; what we owe Social Security &#8212; the interest alone is $383 billion.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s more than what we spend on energy, agriculture, homeland security, education and almost every other government agency combined.<\/p>\n<p>So how can you judge if Washington&#8217;s next purchase is worth it?<\/p>\n<p>This week, Fox News introduces the Taxpayer Calculator. It allows us to break down programs into amounts we can understand. In Wednesday&#8217;s installment, we take a look at the individual cost of $890 million in earmarks for just two senators. Type in your salaray, and the calculator will estimate what the average taxpayer in your income category is paying toward those earmarks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/topics\/politics\/earmarks-and-wasteful-government-spending.htm\" ><strong>CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS TAXPAYER CALCULATOR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Taxpayer Calculator, you can also vote. Results will tell us if the public agreed with each expenditure of their money<\/p>\n<p>These numbers are based on tax returns &#8211; whether you file single or married.<\/p>\n<p>All this week we will be putting a price tag on government programs &#8211; from earmarks to subsidies. Why? Because it is all your money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you combine the public debt &#8212; the amount we owe China and other nations &#8212; with our intragovernmental debt &#8212; what we owe Social Security &#8212; the interest alone is $383 billion. That&#8217;s more than what we spend on energy, agriculture, homeland security, education and almost every other government agency combined. So how can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30fh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}