    [A Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget]
    [List of Charts and Tables]
    [From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    List of Charts

    What Is the Budget?
      1-1 Government Spending as a Share of GDP, 1995, 2
      1-2 Total Government Outlays as a Percent of GDP,  3

    Where the Money Comes From--and Where It Goes
      2-1 Family Budgeting, 5
      2-2 National Budgeting,  6
      2-3 The Federal Government Dollar--Where It Comes From,  7
      2-4 Composition of Revenues Over the Last 40 Years, 9
      2-5 Revenues as a Percent of GDP--Comparison With Other
      2-5 Countries, 9
      2-6 The Federal Government Dollar--Where It Goes,  10
      2-7 On- and Off-Budget Deficit Projections, 15

    How Does the Government Create a Budget?
      3-1 Major Steps in the Budget Process, 18

    Deficits and the Debt
      4-1 Past and Future Budget Deficits or Surpluses,  23
      4-2 Outlays as a Percent of GDP, 24
      4-3 Total Government Surplus or Deficit as a Percent of GDP, 26
      4-4 Interest Costs as a Percent of Income Tax Revenues Over
            40 Years, 27

    The President's 1997 Budget
      5-1 Cuts in Civilian Employment,  34

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    List of Tables

    Where the Money Comes From--and Where It Goes
      2-1 Revenues by Source--Summary,  8
      2-2 Spending Summary,  12
      2-3 Spending by Function,  13
      2-4 Spending by Agency, 14

    Deficits and the Debt
      4-1 Federal Government Financing and Debt, 27