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the percentage of taxes that go to assistance vs the percentage that goes into defense and the subsidies referenced here? I'd love to use this on my Director at work. She uses this silly argument (her money going to the "lazy"
a LITTLE bit (dips her toes into it anyhow), but she's always very responsive when I combat the sentiment. She's NOT conservative; she's apolitical and I'm slowly but surely working on her.
The problem is I do it in generalities, so I need to be more specific. I'd bring her over to our side with figures. Any help is appreciated, and may get me to sway this non-voter at my work into doing the right thing this time around. 
In order to cover for the amounts really being spent, the chart provides a half-truth. It lumps 3 different funding streams (regular taxes, social security and medicare). Yep, they are all government spending but they are separate. They only accurate way to present it is by 3 different pie charts.
This is why the liars are wrong when they say cutting medicare or SS will reduce the deficit because neither of those affect the deficit directly.
Here is the chart that covers regular spending:
This is how the United States budget allocates $1.11 trillion in discretionary spending in fiscal year 2015. Discretionary spending, which accounts for 29 percent of the total 2015 budget, includes programs whose funding levels are set each year by lawmakers during the appropriations process, including the military, education, job training, and the environment. It does not include earned-benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare. See our Total Spending chart to see how the full $3.84 trillion federal budget will be spent in 2015.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/
The top one is probably one of the most offensive things I've ever read.
