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It’s literally an area chart. There’s no way to “skew” it in this format. $800B of $6,300B in spending is always going to be 12.6% no matter how you slice it.
The difference is relatively small to matter, only 0.5% of the total. Also the reason they are separate is because our budget is divided as mandatory and discretionary.
Discretionary is the budget that is not being paid when Congress can’t get their shit together.
The scale is skewed heavily to minimize the appearance of the “defense” budget. Wonder why?
It’s literally an area chart. There’s no way to “skew” it in this format. $800B of $6,300B in spending is always going to be 12.6% no matter how you slice it.
Then why is the slice for defense smaller than Medicare despite being a bigger expense?
I think it’s fair to say it’s visually skewed.
I think it’s the kind of chart they used… You can’t fit 2 same sized circles like that… They could have used a bar chart.
That’s kind of the point… Using certain charts you can mislead people
The difference is relatively small to matter, only 0.5% of the total. Also the reason they are separate is because our budget is divided as mandatory and discretionary.
Discretionary is the budget that is not being paid when Congress can’t get their shit together.
12.6% of the federal budget is extremely high.