How much are you paying for NASA?

Here's an interesting site that just started:

http://www.yourtaxreceipt.org/

That site was inspired by this thread on Reddit, and is quite simple: you enter the amount paid in taxes last year and it lets you know how much went where. I'll pretend I paid $10,000 in taxes last year. That works out to:

What You Paid For:

Social Security	$1,927.22
Medicare	$1,158.35
Medicaid	$713.48
Interest on the National Debt	$531.54
Combat Operations In Iraq and Afghanistan	$424.39
Military Personnel	$357.02
Veteran's Benefits	$138.24
National Parks	$128.44
Federal Highways	$118.31
Health Care Research (NIH)	$86.19
Foreign Aid	$85.33
Education Funding for Low Income K-12 Students	$70.69
Military Retirement Benefits	$60.37
Pell Grants for Low Income College Students	$55.09
NASA Space Program	$52.02
Internal Revenue Service	$32.76
Environmental Clean Up (EPA)	$21.61
The FBI	$20.76
Head Start	$20.20
Public Housing	$19.44
Drug Enforcement Agency	$5.81
Amtrak	$4.13
Smithsonian Museum	$2.07
Funding for the Arts	$0.44
Salaries and Benefits for Members of Congress	$0.35

Keep this site in mind whenever the "let's fix every problem we have on Earth before spending any money on space" argument comes up.