Calculate your share of Federal Budget items

FOX News has once again put up their "It's All Your Money Tax Calculator" so you can figure out how much a particular budget item will cost you. You're invited to vote whether you approve or disapprove of the budget item. The topic up now is:

Name: Non-Defense Energy Programs
Cost: $12,092,471,000*
Description: Obama's FY2012 budget includes $12.1 billion in spending on non-defense energy projects, boosting spending on clean energy programs and energy research. His 2012 budget includes $3.2 billion for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs (a 44% increase over current spending levels), $5.4 billion for research and development at the Office of Science (a 9% increase), and $550 million for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (a 41% increase). Spending on fossil energy is cut 45%.
*Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy

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Rasmussen: 43% Say Government Programs Increase Poverty in America

RASMUSSEN REPORTS, 9/20/2010 - Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the Political Class believe that government programs reduce poverty. But 56% of those in the Mainstream think government programs actually increase the amount of poverty in the United States. ∴ Thirty-three percent (33%) of all voters say the government anti-poverty programs are at least somewhat effective. Sixty-two percent (62%) disagree and say they’re not effective. This includes seven percent (7%) who believe the programs are Very Effective and 21% who say they are Not At All Effective. ∴ These results come as a new Census Bureau study estimates that 14.3% of Americans now fall below the federal poverty line. That’s the highest percentage since 1994 and the highest number of people living in poverty since the estimates first became available in 1959. Read more at Rasmussen's... Read More......