Comment by LaffertyDev
15 days ago
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
What you seek is available and has been available for a very long time. Mathing out how your individual tax dollars map to these buckets is a fairly straightforward (IMO) exercise.
https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function (linked on that page but easy to miss) provides a great visualization/interface for the budget that can drill down deep into each category's sub-categories and beyond.
OTOH they might be asking more specifically for a view that controls for how different tax/income sources might be earmarked for specific spending, thus skewing how income tax dollars are distributed compared to the overall budget distribution - though I'm not sure that's going to change one's income tax dollar distribution much. AFAIK even social security is only nominally funded by social security tax, and the deficit means there's debt filling the gaps everywhere anyway.
That page is a good start. It at least shows the breakdown of % by programs, etc.
However as you point out there are different types and methods of tax which go to different bins. The IRS filings are the most likely place to have all that together.
*value for taxation* is also really difficult to discern. The report needs to help break down where someone's tax dollars went...
But it also needs to help collectively show how tax dollars _benefit_ them. That one not just in the taxes they paid but overall based on where they are and what they're doing.