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December 17th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Love the website – in fact was talking to a friend the other day and was mulling over just where does my tax money go.
Would be great if we could drill further too – e.g. health is 110bn, then medical services is a pink hole of 107bn, and no data below..
Can you add ‘real person examples’ for some of the categories – I mean i’m sure it’s all gov jargon but what is ‘education not defined by level’ or ‘general public services nec’ – a mouse over explanation label or similar would be great.
Would be great to have an option to ‘input the tax you paid this year’ and then have the numbers re-drawn in proportion – e.g. on my 6K of tax paid 1K is in health, 1K in defence etc.
Keep up the good work.
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Jonathan Gray Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
“Would be great to have an option to ‘input the tax you paid this year’ and then have the numbers re-drawn in proportion – e.g. on my 6K of tax paid 1K is in health, 1K in defence etc.”
@Greg: This is one of the original ideas I had for the project – that you could enter your postcode and your income bracket and see an estimation for where your money goes. Definitely something we’re thinking about!
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