[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