John Maeda has posted his "Money Counter" which visualizes compares different Federal budget expenditures. With my own caveat that statistics can lie or be overly selective, feel free to check it out. The data is based on Parade magazine's "Where does your tax money go?" article. The javascript did weird things to my Firefox (don't follow these links until you've bookmarked all your tabs), including rendering the pull-down menu for selecting different comparisons inoperable, so I'll link to the comparisons available individually:
- Business vs. Safety
- Nuclear energy vs. Alternative energy
- Nuclear energy vs. Nuclear cleanup
- Science vs. Arts
- Whitewater/Lewinsky Investigations vs. 9/11 Commission
- Abstinence vs. Adoption [Note: this one was commented out for unspecified reasons]
